Philipp Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Hrvoje Niksic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20010305 19:30]:
>
> > you leave LC_CTYPE at the default, "C" locale, gettext converts
> > eight-bit characters to question marks.
>
> What should it do? characters > 127 are undefined in LC_CTYPE for
> the "C" locale. So IMHO the only safe thing to do is to print a
> question mark instead.
IMHO the only reasonable thing is to pass those characters as-is,
which is what it used to do, and which worked perfectly. I hoped the
times when the default action was to strip the eighth bit were behind
us. Even the GNU coding standards recommend all applications to be
8-bit clean.
