[RFC] 9533: sixth iteration

[Paolo Carlini]

Pétur Runólfsson wrote:

>Paolo Carlini wrote:
>  
>
>>What do you mean exactly by "garbage" (*)? Could you provide 
>>some more 
>>info or,
>>    
>>
>encoding() always returns 4, max_length() always returns 1.
>This is wrong for all encodings (I think it is provable that
>max_length() >= encoding()).
>
Ok, thanks.

>>even better, a patch, enabling us to use safely the 
>>much more 
>>correct code on top?
>>    
>>
>Sure, just copy codecvt.cc and codecvt_members.cc from 3.4 :-)
>Some changes need to be made to keep things ABI-compatible,
>but in general this should be easy to backport.
>
Good.
Therefore, jokes apart, for 3.4 the patch we have refined in the last 
days (using encoding and max_length) is ok, you mean.

Paolo.