Re: Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, stephen(a)xemacs.org noted:
The other bug is either in gcc or in a wrapper supplied by Ubuntu;
it
is using non-ASCII characters (specifically, typographically correct
balanced single quotes) in the output from the compiler.
This is an upstream change: GCC has done this since GCC 4.0 (and it was
documented in the release notes specifically because it might break
scripts).
IMHO this
is
unwise at best.
It is conditionalized off the locale. GCC makes the (reasonable)
assumption that if you're in a UTF-8 locale, your tools, display
devices, and so on can handle UTF-8.
Wrapping GCC up in a script that sets LC_ALL to C or something like that
would fix it. Mind you, if Manuel's Emacs can't handle UTF-8
(non-MULE?), he should probably change LANG or LC_ALL before starting
it.
If you are using XEmacs 21.5.6 or later, then you can probably put
`(setq default-process-coding-system '(utf-8 . raw-text))' in your
init file and get pretty output. However, you will almost surely lose
some or all of the facilities that use functions that parse the error
output, as they depend on matching the ASCII backtick and apostrophe
characters instead of the "beautiful" Unicode left and right single
quote characters. This will take a very long time to fully fix, as we
can't just do a global replace of "`" with "[`‘]".---we need to
find
out which occurances need to be changed, and which should not.
Almost everything GCC can emit should be quoted with Unicode quotes
where possible: everything using the core pretty-printing infrastructure
in gcc/pretty-print.c, and everything else Joseph Myers could find.
There are a few places in fixed strings where `' are still used, but
those are rare, and I can't imagine that much parsing code will
want to pick things out of the middle of *fixed* strings like that
anyway. (Variable components, language types, et seq, are all
users of pretty-print.c, and so all use Unicode quoting.)
--
`When we are born we have plenty of Hydrogen but as we age our
Hydrogen pool becomes depleted.'
_______________________________________________
XEmacs-Beta mailing list
XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org
http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta