Re: [patch, fortran] Wide character I/O Part 1

[Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at verizon dot net>]

Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> > This patch implements wide character I/O with default encoding for 
> > list directed formatted and formatted I/O.
> Great! I have to admit, I only loosely tested it.
>
> I have a question: Can one implement writing character(kind=4) with 
> encoding="default" such that Latin 1 (ISO-8859-1) characters will not be 
> translated into '?' but come out as 8bit characters?

I will investigate this.  At least now we have proof of principle working and I 
can focus on this a bit.  I should mention, I now have unformatted working already.

> In principle I had expected that the following does so, but my tests fail:
>
> +      *p++ = (unsigned int) source[i * kind] > 255 ?
> +         '?' : source[i * kind + endian_off];
>
>
> Test case:
> (Note there is some format checking which also goes wrong.)
>
> ! Compile with -fbackslash
> character(kind=4,len=20) :: str = 4_'X\xF8öABC'
> !print '(3a0)', ':',trim(str),':' ! REJECTED, but valid?
> print *, ':',trim(str),':'
> end
I thought that would work too, but thanks for test case!  I will take this and 
FX's comments and get it working.


Thanks for review!

Best regards,

Jerry