Re: [RFC] Adjust output for strings in tree-pretty-print.c

[Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>]

FX wrote:
> > I think the best thing to do is to have a langhook then.
>
> It seems a bit weird to have a langhook for a one-character
> difference, but if there's a consensus on it, I'll go along.

To me too, but I still maintain that it's better to print in UTF-8 
(which would make the langhook more useful).  The recent Unicode patches 
for C possibly could use the langhook too.

> > Endianness issues may also appear.  Maybe you should call iconv in the
> > langhook to get back to UTF-8, and print that representation instead.
>
> Endianness is already take care of, in the sense that the string is
> encoded in the target's endianness already.

But for testing you want a standardized endianness.  Otherwise some 
targets will need to scan "I\0\0\0" and others will need to scan "\0\0\0I".

> However, that makes
> calling iconv more difficult, because that has us going from target's
> endianness to UTF-8, which will be a pain.

No, you can use UTF-32BE and UTF-32LE encodings.

Paolo