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Re: Default target wide character set

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
Cc: alexeyf at opera dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:46:30 -0600
Subject: Re: Default target wide character set
References: <op.u0axp6t456e9f9@xman.oslo.opera.com> <m3ljkepvlz.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <83y6oewrmm.fsf@gnu.org>
Reply-to: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> What I would propose doing is adding a new charset named "UCS".  If this
>> is selected as the target wide charset, then we would automatically pick
>> UCS-2 or UCS-4 depending on sizeof(target wchar_t).

Eli> AFAIK, Windows (whose wchar_t is 16-bit) uses UTF-16, not UCS-2.

Ok.

We could name it "auto" then.

Eli> What other platforms have a 16-bit wchar_t, and are you sure any
Eli> significant portion of them use UCS-2 (which is an obsolete encoding,
Eli> AFAIK)?

I don't know.

Tom

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