Ken Takata wrote:
> > > I wrote a patch for the following todo item:
> > >
> > > > Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system
> > > > locale, the
> > > > output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei
> > > > Wu)
> > > > Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
> > >
> > > I think using 'termencoding' for this is not so good. Normally
> > > the encoding of a command output is the same as the encoding of
> > > the terminal, but not always the same. I hear that some commands
> > > on Windows use utf-8 instead of the current codepage. So I added
> > > a new option 'cmdencoding' ('cenc').
> > > What do you think of this?
> >
> > Seems reasonable. It's not nice that it's yet another option. But in
> > case you know the compiler output is in a certain encoding it's the only
> > way to make it work.
> >
> > Why they "char" value? It's using the system locale, wouldn't "system"
> > be better? Hmm, I don't see where "char" is recognized.
>
> At least, GNU libiconv supports "char".
>
> See: https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
> | Locale dependent, in terms of `char' or `wchar_t' (with machine dependent
> | endianness and alignment, and with OS and locale dependent semantics)
> | char, wchar_t
> | The empty encoding name "" is equivalent to "char": it denotes the
> locale
> | dependent character encoding.
>
> I don't know about other iconv implementations.
I found a few, but they all say that the name supported are system
dependent. Perhaps someone can dig deeper?
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