On 10/16/18 7:13 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > While investigating, I found this bug for GNU libc asking to add an SJIS > locale, and the developers were strongly opposed: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=136290 >
Thanks for the pointer, that was interesting reading. > At this point, I'm inclined to believe that Shift_JIS is not suitable as > a locale encoding on POSIX systems, and that we should not try to > support it in Guile. > > What do you think? My interest here is limited to fixing a gdb regression, so for me not supporting it is fine. Though we should have a reasonable failure mode (so, not abort as is the case for this report). Thanks, - Tom
