Re: Incompatible compiler option fexec-charset

[Wolfgang Lux]

David Chisnall wrote:

> On 7 Dec 2011, at 15:32, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> 
>> No .. the idea is to let them work in whatever environment they like 
>> (latin-2 is a perfectly good example), but have the *binary*  they produce 
>> contain UTF-8 encoded strings so that the running executable will display 
>> the correct characters.
> 
> But that's not what you're testing.  Your source file contains some random 
> encoding (latin-1, I believe).  The compiler will then interpret this as 
> being whatever the current locale encoding is.  You are then specifying that 
> the output is UTF-8.  So it is relying on a conversion from 
> latin1-interpreted-as-something-random to UTF-8.  

That is not true. The configure script sets LANG and LC_ALL to en_US.ISO-8859-1 
before compiling the test, which is the canonical way to select the source 
locale. So in this respect I think Richard's test is correct.

Wolfgang