Re: Odd encoding issue with UTF-8 + gettext yields ? on non-ASCII

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2010, 21:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20100828215956.GB5515@burratino>
In-Reply-To: <20100828214641.GA5515@burratino>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>  printf("%s\n", some_nonsense_string);
> 
> should always just work.

Ok, so apparently

 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <locale.h>

 int main(void)
 {
        setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
        printf("%.11s\n", "Author: \277");
	return 0;
 }

does not work.  Even while

	printf("%.1s\n", "étale");

does print only one byte.

Ideas?

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