Re: default character encoding for everything in debian
Giacomo A. Catenazzi, le Wed 12 Aug 2009 08:03:30 +0200, a écrit :
> Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:40:35PM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> >> In article <[🔎] 20090811183800.GE5487@const.famille.thibault.fr> you wrote:
> >>> Not necessarily. Any sane implementation should just use wchar_t
> >> Which could be UTF16 and therefore still has complicatd length semantics.
> >
> > No, wchar_t is UCS-4 (or UCS-2 in esoteric implementations like
> > Windows).
>
> No wchar_t is locale dependent (per POSIX).
What do you mean? The compiler can't know the locale in advance for
the width and endianness. The value might depend on the locale, yes,
but that's not a problem as long as you convert into UTF-8 before
communicating with other applications.
One same systems (Debian systems are), it's just always UCS-4.
> BTW on gcc:
>
> -fwide-exec-charset=charset
> Set the wide execution character set, used for wide string and
> character constants.
It hurts when I shoot myself in the foot.
> The default is UTF-32 or UTF-16, whichever corresponds to the width of
> wchar_t.
This documentation is bogus BTW. It should read "UCS-4 or UCS-2".
> Note that default encoding is UTF-8, thus giving a UTF-32 wchar_t
> in most developer machines.
I don't understand this sentence.
Samuel
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