Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] [PATCH] Support nl_langinfo (CODESET) correctly on OS/2

[KO Myung-Hun]

Hi/2.

Bruno Haible wrote:
>>>> +    { "CP1200",         "UCS-2" },
>>>
>>> UCS-2 cannot be used as a locale encoding, since it is not ASCII 
>>> compatible. This
>>> cannot work.
>>>
>>
>> setlocale() on kLIBC accepts "IBM-1200", "UCS-2" and so on.
>> Nevertheless, UCS-2 should be removed ?
> 
> The locale encoding is the encoding of strings such as
>   - the arguments of main(),
>   - file names,
>   - text read from stdin,
>   - text read from stdout.
> 
> Applications use 'char *' (with implicit length as determined by strlen)
> for such text. But 'char *' and strlen don't work with UCS-2 encoded
> text (because it contains many NUL bytes).
> 

Thanks for your explanation.

I attach the updated patch. But in case of the URL of __convcp(), I'll
contact the server maintainer instead of removing it.

-- 
KO Myung-Hun

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0001-Support-nl_langinfo-CODESET-correctly-on-OS-2.patch
Description: Source code patch