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Re: How to debug with gdbtui and utf-8 source files?
- From: "Dedeco Balaco via gdb" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 00:22:29 -0200
- Subject: Re: How to debug with gdbtui and utf-8 source files?
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- Reply-to: Dedeco Balaco <dedeco dot balaco at yahoo dot com>
Em 18-10-2017 16:36, Simon Marchi escreveu:
> On 2017-10-18 13:46, Dedeco Balaco Baco via gdb wrote:
>> I have:
>>
>> - a terminal set to UTF-8 in an OS where UTF-8 locales are installed:
>> Mate Terminal 1.12.1 (does not matter, as long as its character
>> encoding is utf-8)
>>
>> - a C source file which contains (both) utf-8 comments and utf-8 strings
>>
>> - gdbtui:
>>
>> $ gdbtui --version
>> GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.11.1-0ubuntu1~16.5) 7.11.1
>>
>> The program compiles and works flawlessly, with its output being
>> correctly shown in the terminal.
>>
>> gdbtui, on the other hand, does not show the comments correctly,
>> making them hard to read and also braking the size and making a few
>> lines occupy two screenlines. This makes strange things happen when we
>> step-by-step through these lines.
>>
>> For example, instead of showing:
>>
>> "// Não temos nenhum nó, garante não ter um falso ponteiro"
>>
>> in the source window, gdbtui shows:
>>
>> "// NM-CM-#o temos nenhum nM-CM-3, garante nM-CM-#o ter um falso
>> ponteiro"
>>
>> The environment is correctly set:
>>
>> $ set | grep -e 'LANG|LC_ALL'
>> LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
>> LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8:en_GB:en
>> LC_ALL=pt_BR.UTF-8
>>
>> How can I make gdbtui work correctly? If no answer exist for this
>> question, I may help filling a bug report about it. I will need a bit
>> of help with that, please offer, if that is possible.
>
> As discussed on IRC, this was likely fixed with this commit
>
> Allow linking GDB with ncursesw
> 5007d765ae09c10c7f3b18bb16841b9d2d59e181
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-09/msg00356.html
>
Ok, I will try that and report in this thread if it worked or not.