svn commit: r351413 - head/usr.bin/last
Eugene Grosbein
eugen at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 23 10:38:29 UTC 2019
23.08.2019 10:01, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> Should this be done more generally? Last time I looked it seemed like
> libxo was completely locale-unaware and just assumed all input was
> UTF-8. It might make more sense to have libxo take locale into
> account when formatting %s strings.
libxo is locale-aware but in its own quite peculiar way, as libxo(3) tells:
> For strings, the 'h' and 'l' modifiers affect the interpretation of the
> bytes pointed to argument. The default '%s' string is a 'char *' pointer
> to a string encoded as UTF-8. Since UTF-8 is compatible with ASCII data,
> a normal 7-bit ASCII string can be used. "%ls" expects a "wchar_t *"
> pointer to a wide-character string, encoded as 32-bit Unicode values.
> "%hs" expects a "char *" pointer to a multi-byte string encoded with the
> current locale, as given by the LC_CTYPE, LANG, or LC_ALL environment
> variables.
I'd like it detect UTF-8 automatically instead with strcmp(nl_langinfo(CODESET), "UTF-8")
but I'm not going to hack libxo code myself as I'm not familiar with its design.
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