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From: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: 20823@debbugs.gnu.org, ludo@gnu.org
Subject: bug#20823: argv mangled by locale
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 09:42:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160624084252.GE1170@fysh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ibjeum.fsf@pobox.com>

Andy Wingo wrote:
>                                                        I also don't
>know whether to supply an optional "encoding" argument, and use that
>encoding to decode the command line arguments.

That, or something that just retrieves octets, is necessary.  Decoding via
the selected locale does not suffice, because there's no guarantee that
there'll be a locale with a cooperative encoding.

-zefram





  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-24  8:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-16  4:33 bug#20823: argv mangled by locale Zefram
2016-03-04 23:24 ` Zefram
2016-06-24  6:11 ` Andy Wingo
2016-06-24  8:42   ` Zefram [this message]
2016-08-14 21:36   ` Zefram

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