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