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Subject: Re: multibyte(3) functions not working ?
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<<On Fri, 8 Mar 2002 19:16:53 +0100 (CET), Tomas Pluskal <plusik@pohoda.cz> said:

> I know that ISO8859-2 is not multibyte encoding, but in fact gnumeric,
> gedit (and I believe a lot of other software) expect the multibyte
> functions to work anyway (and to work as "translate characters from
> current locale's encoding to UNICODE" and reverse).

They are broken.  (Or perhaps they are relying on new behavior in C99,
but I rather doubt it.)

> Why does this work in linux ?

Because Linux (or rather, glibc) implements it the way these broken
programs expect.

-GAWollman


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