Re: ecpg is broken in current

Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 03:31:59PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > > pgc.o(.text+0x582): undefined reference to `pg_mbcliplen'
> > > pgc.o(.text+0x953): undefined reference to `pg_mbcliplen'
> > > ...
> > > pg_mbcliplen cannot be used in the frontend. Remove them, please.
> >
> > Is there any way to use a similar functionality in ecpg? I don't like to run
> > truncate the text too early.
>
> To truncate a mulbyte characters properly, you need to know what
> encoding is used for a .pgc file that ecpg about to process. Currently
> there is no mechanism in ecpg (and all other frontend) to know what
> encoding is used for the .pgc files. This is a tough problem...
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii

I would recommend a command line option overriding an environment variable
(fallback). Isn't there some LC_* indicating the default encoding.
But on the other hand, compiling would most likely take place in 'C'.

Christof