[Mono-dev] Question about encodings - possible documentation bug?

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

Hi there

It is my understanding, that mono strings are always UTF16 internally.

But, what encoding does the source files needs to be?

The documentation (man gmcs) suggest this:

"By default files  will be  processed  in  the  Latin-1 code page."

It happens to be, that I have some source files in Latin1. My locale is 
en_US.UTF-8. It appears that some characters gets to be ignored, when strings 
are constructed:

string test = "foo æøå bar";

(Middle three characters are Danish chars, with binary rep e6  f8 e5 in 
Latin1, aka the encoding of the sourcefile. )

The string test will, on runtime, be printed (and I have checked this by 
traversing the string) as "foo  bar".

Now, using gmcs, with -codepage:28591 (Latin1) makes a string, that _does_ 
have the characters, sugggesting that the documentation are in error.

So, isn't this a bug in the docs, and should (g)mcs not complain, if it finds 
chars not supported?

Regards,

Mads

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