Il 07/06/2012 14:50, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>> > The fix could be to have two different locale_charset() functions,
>> > one that returns "US-ASCII" and another one that returns "UTF-8".
>> > The first one to be used when MB_CUR_MAX and mbrtowc() are used as
>> > well, the second one to be used by gettext(). But the separation
>> > line between the two cases is not yet clear to me. Any insights?

The separation line is what you wrote: whether you'll use the text
simply for presentation, or whether you'll process it before.  But
alternatively, we might try a variant of what Eric has suggested...

> On OS X, can we wrap MB_CUR_MAX to pretend to be 1 when in the "C"
> locale, to match what cygwin did in distinguishing between 'C' and
> 'C.UTF-8'?

... which is to wrap MB_CUR_MAX and pretend that it is 3.

Paolo


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