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Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun dot com>
- Subject: Re: thoughts on martin's proposed patch for GCC and UTF-8
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 21 Dec 1998 19:24:24 -0800
- Cc: zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu, rms at gnu dot org, amylaar at cygnus dot co dot uk, martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, gcc2 at gnu dot org, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <199812211500.KAA08417@blastula.phys.columbia.edu> <199812220257.SAA08495@shade.twinsun.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> writes:
> Unfortunately, this suggestion doesn't solve the problem of unportable
> directives in practice, because the charset+encoding names are not
> standardized well either.
Take a look at the gconv-modules file in glibc. A similar file could
be part of gcc. The user could extend it in whatever way s/he needs.
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