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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 12:03:57 -0600
>
> If there is a way to detect the current DOS codepage, and if that is
> equivalent to the notion of the host charset (I don't know), then we
> could put the needed code into _initialize_charset.
There's a system call to do that, yes. Perhaps I should just write a
limited emulation of nl_langinfo which will do the job. That would
avoid ugly system-dependent code in charset.c. WDYT?
> Eli> GDB 6.8 shows ISO-8859-1 for both character sets, FWIW.
>
> Tom> 6.8 did no auto-detection at all and had ISO-8859-1 coded in.
> Tom> I changed the default to UTF-8 because that is increasingly common.
>
> Eli> We need to document all that, I think. I will give it a shot if no
> Eli> one beats me to it.
>
> How about the appended?
Fine with me, thanks.