Re: [PATCH] Use UTF-8 active code page for Windows host.

[Costas Argyris]

We won't know, not unless and until some user complains and debugging
shows this is the cause.  But we can warn about this issue in the
documentation up front, so that people don't raise their expectations
too high.

Makes sense.

Any thoughts for next steps then?

On Mon, 20 Mar 2023 at 16:17, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Costas Argyris <costas.argyris@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:58:39 +0000
> Cc: bug-make@gnu.org, Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>
>
> Still my concern would be: assuming that we actually learn something
> from this test, how would we know:
>
> 1) Which other functions besides stricmp are affected?    Maybe
> letter-case is not the only problematic aspect.
> 2) Which of the above (#1) set of functions are actually called from
> Make source code, directly or indirectly?
> 3) Which of the above (#2) set of functions could be called with UTF-8
> input that would cause them to break?

We won't know, not unless and until some user complains and debugging
shows this is the cause.  But we can warn about this issue in the
documentation up front, so that people don't raise their expectations
too high.