Re: [PATCH] string encoding for ISO 8859-1

2001-10-17 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > Its still likely that I'm misunderstanding the intent, but I think > that a .pbc file created by me with LANG=C is not necessarily going > to generate string constants that have the same meaning when you go > to run it on your platform of choice, which

Re: [PATCH] string encoding for ISO 8859-1

2001-10-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:49 PM 10/17/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:21:51AM -0400, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > > I may be misunderstanding, but I think 'strnative' needs to go away > > and we need to determine the precise native encoding, > >Please don't apply this; I think you are misunder

Re: [PATCH] string encoding for ISO 8859-1

2001-10-17 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:37 PM 10/17/2001 -0400, James Mastros wrote: >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > > 2. The encoding for the chunk-o-memory the interpreter is about > > to turn into a STRING, having found said chunk in the packfile's > > const_table. >Perhaps we should always output str

Re: [PATCH] string encoding for ISO 8859-1

2001-10-17 Thread James Mastros
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > 2. The encoding for the chunk-o-memory the interpreter is about > to turn into a STRING, having found said chunk in the packfile's > const_table. Perhaps we should always output string constants as UTF8? This would avoid the problems with

Re: [PATCH] string encoding for ISO 8859-1

2001-10-17 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
Simon -- > > I may be misunderstanding, but I think 'strnative' needs to go away > > and we need to determine the precise native encoding, > > Please don't apply this; I think you are misunderstanding. > strnative is equivalent to LANG=C. It *is* the precise native > encoding. No problem. I was

Re: [PATCH] string encoding for ISO 8859-1

2001-10-17 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:21:51AM -0400, Gregor N. Purdy wrote: > I may be misunderstanding, but I think 'strnative' needs to go away > and we need to determine the precise native encoding, Please don't apply this; I think you are misunderstanding. strnative is equivalent to LANG=C. It *is* the