Re: how to test the new glibc-2.2's UTF-8 locales

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Does the header, gettext(""), still contain the name of the original
> encoding, or is that translated too?

It's just another message and will not be treated differently.  You're
not supposed to use this in the first place.

> What's the best way of making it work with any C library? An autoconf
> test? Does anyone already have a recipe, or hints?

Autoconf always works.

> Presumably transliteration would be better. Can this be changed?

First I have to finish the transliteration implementation.  The use of
transliteration will always be the first choice before failing.

> This reminds me of a question I haven't had answered yet: what does
> iconv do in the worst case, e.g. if it has to transliterate a Chinese
> character into ASCII? Does it convert to '?', or what?

Transcription modules will be available as well.  This all fits into
the framework.

If nothing is available the information from the LC_CTYPE category is
used which suggests a replacement character.

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