Re: [Fwd: Patch for Recovery from Bad Multibyte Characters]

[Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> Dave Brolley <brolley@cygnus.com> writes:

 > Jason Merrill wrote:

 >> Contrary to what Dave says, this problem occurs with any code that uses
 >> high-ASCII values if gcc is configured with --enable-c-mbchar.  It doesn't
 >> depend on the value of LANG at all.

 > In the absence of one of the magic LANG settings, the implementation uses
 > mblen and mbtowc as defined by the host locale (when configured with
 > --enable-c-mbchar). It is possible that some locales support other multibyte
 > character sets than JIS, SJIS and EUCJP.

All I know is that it breaks in nightly testing, when no LANG is set.

Jason