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

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 30, 2010, 14:04 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=otZ-mxoaPJ3Mg9EFb5+jy1A=DS3w73weB5EJ=@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100830134136.GA2315@burratino>

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 13:41, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
>
>> We can even keep the "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" and
>> *not* use LC_CTYPE if we add a bind_textdomain_codeset("git", "UTF-8")
>> call to gettext.
>
> Oh!  I'd personally prefer to do that for now. :)  (Not because of the
> known printf problem but because I like to reduce possible unknowns.)

By now I want to do that too. I've been experimenting with including *printf*.c from OpenBSD, NetBSD or FreeBSD and the uClibc and in all those cases it's a major PITA to wade through the OS-specific code that deep in the libc.

Even if I could get that sorted it'll be non-trivial to audit all the code whose semantics will change with LC_CTYPE, and there's a good chance I'll miss something and cause an embarrasing bug in some unrelated component.

Better to just document this limitation for now and decree that gettext users must have a UTF-8 locale.