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Re: Input charsets - What's going on?
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:47:03 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: Input charsets - What's going on?
- References: <40AB8CF9.1050906@gnu.org> <878yfogo88.fsf@codesourcery.com>
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Is the feature broken by design?
>
> The feature is indeed broken by design (for precisely this reason);
> however, it is in SUS so we're stuck with it.
Allowing conversion failures if they occur within comments (possibly with
a warning for them), skipping any unconvertible bytes, might help, but I
don't know how feasible this is.
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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk