Bug#352790: gcc-4.0: gcc doesn't use locale for default input charset

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>]

Package: gcc-4.0
Version: 4.0.2-8
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Hi,

Manual page says:

       -finput-charset=charset
           Set the input character set, used for translation from the charac-
           ter set of the input file to the source character set used by GCC.
           If the locale does not specify, or GCC cannot get this information
           from the locale, the default is UTF-8.  This can be overridden by
           either the locale or this command line option.  Currently the com-
           mand line option takes precedence if there's a conflict.  charset
           can be any encoding supported by the system's "iconv" library rou-
           tine.

€ locale charmap
ISO-8859-15

My ISO-8859-15-encoded test.c:

#include <locale.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
	setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
	printf("|%lc|\n",L'ü');
	return 0;
}

doesn't compile with a simple
$ gcc test.c -o test
test.c:5:19: error: converting to execution character set: Invalid argument

If I encode the file in utf-8, this works, whatever the current locale.

Apparently, the default is always utf-8. Gcc should use locale charset
as default input charset instead.

Regards,
Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages gcc-4.0 depends on:
ii  binutils             2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpp-4.0              4.0.2-8             The GNU C preprocessor
ii  gcc-4.0-base         4.0.2-8             The GNU Compiler Collection (base 
ii  libc6                2.3.6-1             GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1              1:4.0.2-8           GCC support library

Versions of packages gcc-4.0 recommends:
ii  libc6-dev                     2.3.6-1    GNU C Library: Development Librari
pn  libmudflap0-dev               <none>     (no description available)

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