Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-21 Thread Markus Armbruster
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé writes: > On 20/11/18 23:01, Eric Blake wrote: >> [adding Markus in CC, since git didn't do it automatically from the >> 'Reported-by'] >> >> On 11/20/18 3:28 PM, John Snow wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 11/20/18 3:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: While most developers are now using UT

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-21 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 20/11/18 23:01, Eric Blake wrote: [adding Markus in CC, since git didn't do it automatically from the 'Reported-by'] On 11/20/18 3:28 PM, John Snow wrote: On 11/20/18 3:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: While most developers are now using UTF-8 environments, it's harder to guarantee that error me

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-20 Thread Thomas Huth
On 2018-11-20 21:36, Eric Blake wrote: > While most developers are now using UTF-8 environments, it's > harder to guarantee that error messages will be output to > a multibyte locale. Rather than risking error messages that > get corrupted into mojibake when the user runs qemu in a > non-multibyte

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-20 Thread John Snow
On 11/20/18 5:01 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding Markus in CC, since git didn't do it automatically from the > 'Reported-by'] > > On 11/20/18 3:28 PM, John Snow wrote: >> >> >> On 11/20/18 3:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: >>> While most developers are now using UTF-8 environments, it's >>> harder to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
[adding Markus in CC, since git didn't do it automatically from the 'Reported-by'] On 11/20/18 3:28 PM, John Snow wrote: On 11/20/18 3:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: While most developers are now using UTF-8 environments, it's harder to guarantee that error messages will be output to a multibyte l

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-20 Thread John Snow
On 11/20/18 3:36 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > While most developers are now using UTF-8 environments, it's > harder to guarantee that error messages will be output to > a multibyte locale. Rather than risking error messages that > get corrupted into mojibake when the user runs qemu in a > non-multiby

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] misc: Avoid UTF-8 in error messages

2018-11-20 Thread Eric Blake
While most developers are now using UTF-8 environments, it's harder to guarantee that error messages will be output to a multibyte locale. Rather than risking error messages that get corrupted into mojibake when the user runs qemu in a non-multibyte locale, let's stick to straight ASCII error messa