libstdc++/9874: filebuf::seekpos fails if codecvt::encoding() <= 0

[Pétur Runólfsson]

The following reply was made to PR libstdc++/9874; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9tur_Run=F3lfsson?= <peturr02@ru.is>
To: <paolo@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org>,
	<nobody@gcc.gnu.org>,
	=?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E9tur_Run=F3lfsson?= <peturr02@ru.is>,
	<gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org>
Cc:  
Subject: RE: libstdc++/9874: filebuf::seekpos fails if codecvt::encoding() <= 0
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 18:40:10 -0000

 >     Confirmed. Support for state dependent/variable length
 >     encodings is not really implemented presently in the library.
 
 I agree that state-dependent isn't supported, but at least for
 UTF-8, it is possible to do almost everything except seek, read
 from files bigger than BUFSIZ bytes, and read from wcin (and
 I've posted a patch that fixes that).
 
 Petur