Re: Thread names and non-ASCII characters
Tom Tromey <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes: Eli> Can someone tell what GDB assumes to be the character encoding used by Eli> thread names we get from the system APIs (such as pthread_getname_np)? Eli> It sounds like we assume the host character set, since the functions Eli> used to display the thread name don't perform any encoding conversion. Eli> Is my understanding correct? Yes, I believe so. Eli> I'm asking because Windows 10 introduces a new API for setting and Eli> getting a thread's name, but this API wants a UTF-16 encoded string, Eli> so if we want to use it, we need to decide from/to what encoding to Eli> convert to/from UTF-16. Converting to the host charset is probably the thing to do. If the host charset is decided incorrectly, then enhancing charset.c to choose a better one would help in other places as well. convert_between_encodings can be used to do the translation. Tom