Re: MirBSD mbtowc bug? failure on test-wcrtomb

[Thorsten Glaser]

Bruno Haible dixit:

>So, when the caller specifies an encoding such as ISO8859-1 in the argument,
>your setlocale() implementation ought to return NULL and have no side-effects.

setlocale() is a nop and thus never has side effects.

If an application wants to use iso-8859-1, it can do that, because the
encoding of the system is OPTU-8:

möp (latin1) = 0x6D 0xF6 0x70
↓ convert to wchar_t ↓
0x006D 0xEFF6 0x0070
↓ convert to char ↓
0x6D 0xF6 0x70

bye,
//mirabilos
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