Re: Unicode/UTF-8 support for man

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> You seem to be suggesting that C library functions such as wprintf
> should do transliteration. But I thought these functions, like
> wcrtomb, only do reversible transformations between multibyte and wide
> character representations.

If you have some data invalid in the current locale in a wchar_t array
the wprintf() functions can do whatever they want.  Stopping with an
error is one thing, ignoring or transliterating another (limited
transliteration is performed in the C locale).  You can add
appropriate information to your locale specification and the libc will
handle approriately.

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