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From: "bugdal at aerifal dot cx" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [Bug libc/13757] mbstowcs(3) unable to handle 8bit characters.
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:42:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-13757-131-cyhMJKBSy9@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-13757-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13757
Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> changed:
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--- Comment #7 from Rich Felker <bugdal at aerifal dot cx> 2012-03-03 13:41:43 UTC ---
The charmap for the C locale should definitely not be ISO-8859-anything. All
that does is encourage broken, non-portable program behavior. If you are going
to use mbrtowc and family and intend to process characters not in the portable
character set, you MUST call setlocale for the LC_CTYPE category.
The system calls you referred to (e.g. readdir and readlink) do not use any
character map. They process bytes. In any case, if you wanted the C locale to
match the filesystem's encoding, it would have to be UTF-8, not ISO-8859-1, at
least on any modern system, and I'm pretty sure that's not what you want since
you seem to be advocating for very backwards behavior...
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-26 8:08 [Bug libc/13757] New: " sdrake at xnet dot co.nz
2012-02-26 8:46 ` [Bug libc/13757] " schwab@linux-m68k.org
2012-02-26 8:48 ` schwab@linux-m68k.org
2012-02-26 9:11 ` sdrake at xnet dot co.nz
2012-02-26 9:37 ` schwab@linux-m68k.org
2012-02-29 5:55 ` sdrake at xnet dot co.nz
2012-02-29 9:17 ` schwab@linux-m68k.org
2012-03-02 2:29 ` sdrake at xnet dot co.nz
2012-03-03 13:42 ` bugdal at aerifal dot cx [this message]
2012-03-07 8:45 ` drepper.fsp at gmail dot com
2014-06-26 14:36 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
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