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Re: RFC: Displaying multibyte symbol names in readelf
>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
Andreas> Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:
>> I think this has the same issue, though, because printf is just going to
>> assume the current locale's encoding.
Andreas> printf "%s" doesn't use the locale at all.
Yeah, that was a confused way of thinking about it.
But suppose readelf does printf "%s".
How would you interpret the output of readelf?
It is presumably text - but what encoding does it use?
Tom