Bug#175370: patch: use UTF-8 internally, convert to locale's encoding for output

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:43:33PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
[...]
> +void locale_printf_init()
> +{
> +  char *lang = getenv ("LANG");
> +  char *dot;
> +
> +  if (locale_encoding)
> +    return;
> +
> +  if (!lang)
> +    goto out_ascii;
> +  dot = strchr (lang, '.');
> +  if (dot && dot+1)
> +    locale_encoding = strdup(dot+1);
> +  if (!locale_encoding)
> +    goto out_ascii;
> +  return;
> + out_ascii:
> +  locale_encoding = strdup("US-ASCII");
> +  if (!strcmp (locale_encoding, "UTF-8"))
> +    locale_is_utf8 = 1;
> +}

Unfortunately situation is much more complex (you must check LC_ALL and
LC_CTYPE variables too), the simplest solution is to run 'locale charmap'
to retrieve the current encoding.

Did you test your patch on a system where no UTF-8 locales are generated?
I am not sure it works then.

Denis