[PATCH/RFA] Revamp wctomb/mbtowc conversion, add more charset support

[Jeff Johnston]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 20 15:27, Jeff Johnston wrote:
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>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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>>> On Mar 20 18:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
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>>>> Or, couldn't we define just a single additional setting like, say
>>>> _MB_EXTENDED_CHARSETS, which can be set in config.h in a target-specific
>>>> manner?
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>>>>         
>>> Or maybe two like
>>>
>>>   _MB_EXTENDED_CHARSETS_ISO
>>>   _MB_EXTENDED_CHARSETS_DOS
>>>
>>>
>>> Corinna
>>>
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>>>       
>> I can live with that for now.
>>     
>
> Thank you.  I'll add those two above.  Besides of the fixes Craig
> proposed, I also found that I'm ignoring reentrancy at two or three
> points in the code.  I'll fix that as well.  I'll update the patch and
> send it again next week.
>
> Again my other question from my original mail in this thread.
>
> Would it generally be an appreciated idea to add correctly working
> support for all supported singlebyte charsets to the singlebyte ctype
> functions, like isalpha, ispunct, etc?  I'm willing to do that.  In
> theory I would just add new ctype arrays and resetting the __ctype_ptr
> to the new array in setlocale().
>
>   
As long as the embedded platforms are protected from dragging in stuff 
they aren't using,
certainly.

-- Jeff J.
> Corinna
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