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Re: Configuring gdb_wchar.h
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:13:53 -0600
>
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> Eli> (gdb) show host-charset
> Eli> The host character set is "auto; currently UTF-8".
> Eli> (gdb) show target-charset
> Eli> The target character set is "ISO-8859-1".
>
> Eli> This is the DJGPP port. Is this expected? Where are these defaults
> Eli> set?
>
> If a system has nl_langinfo(CODESET), then that is used.
> Otherwise, we fall back on a built-in default.
Would it make sense to tailor the default on specific platforms?
DJGPP does not have `nl_langinfo', and will probably never support any
character set except ASCII and the current DOS codepage.
> Eli> GDB 6.8 shows ISO-8859-1 for both character sets, FWIW.
>
> 6.8 did no auto-detection at all and had ISO-8859-1 coded in.
> I changed the default to UTF-8 because that is increasingly common.
We need to document all that, I think. I will give it a shot if no
one beats me to it.
Thanks.