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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 02/17/2011 07:59 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 17 February 2011 13:37, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>    
>> An application has to explicitly support an encoding.  It is not
>> transparent.  UCS2/UTF-16 means that strings are not 'const char *'s but
>> 'const wchar_t *' where typedef unsigned short wchar_t;.
>>
>> QEMU assumes, in lots of places that strings are single-byte NUL terminated.
>>   Basically, any use of snprintf, printf, strcpy, strlen, etc. pretty much
>> tie you to ASCII/UTF-8.
>>      
> Er, no, it limits you to those encodings where you can treat strings
> as "bag of NUL-terminated bytes". Oddly enough just about all the
> common legacy ones (iso-8859-*, iso-2022-jp, etc) fit in that category
> because otherwise they'd break really badly.

I wasn't even considering those because I think the entire world has 
moved to unicode/utf*

Those functions limit you to UTF-8 which was my original point.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>   As it is, generally
> things Just Work for programs which treat filenames as "an opaque
> string".
>
> -- PMM
>
>