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

Mads Bondo Dydensborg mbd at dbc.dk
Thu Jul 5 02:03:27 EDT 2007


torsdag 05 juli 2007 07:45 skrev Atsushi Eno:
> Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote:
> > onsdag 04 juli 2007 16:03 skrev Andy Hume:
> >> See http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-list/2007-June/035463.html
> >> "* Mono compilers will default to the current language encoding as their
> >> native encoding. [...]"
> >>
> >> The man page maybe needs updating too? (I didn't check). 
> > 
> > Yes, I believe you are right. The man page needs updating - and I think 
(g)mcs 
> > should be made to at least warn about characters that does not follow the 
> > encoding the compiler is currently using. If possible.
> 
> That is not possible or practical, as many of characters are rather
> mapped incorrectly than mapped to nowhere (and there is no way to
> detect those map-to-nowhere conversion for mcs). csc is another
> example that does nothing for such issues.

OK - perhaps this should be mentioned in the man page too?
> 
> Those manpage sources are in trunk/mono/man, but I'll fix them instead.

OK - I did a grep for some of the words on the entire tree, but nothing turned 
up. Thanks for the information & for fixing the man page.

Regards,

Mads

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