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Re: [ping] [PATCH] Different outputs affected by locale
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: yao at codesourcery dot com, tromey at redhat dot com, brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:57:59 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ping] [PATCH] Different outputs affected by locale
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On 06/12/2014 07:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> With you so far. But note that on Windows, even the above does not
> guarantee "stable output", because the console codepage is not changed
> by 'setlocale',
I guess the harmness could run gdb under chcp 65001 or some such.
> You cannot ask the Windows 'setlocale' to use UTF-8 as the codeset
> (although there is a UTF-8 codepage, and Windows does support it in
> general). More importantly, since 'setlocale' on Windows disregards
> the environment variables, you cannot change the host charset by
> setting environment variables. You must do that by a GDB command that
> sets host-charset.
See https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-06/msg00364.html .
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Pedro Alves