Re: porting yasr: non-standard WCHAR_T in iconv_open()

[adr <adr%sdf.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2024, Jörg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 27, 2024 11:15:02 PM CET adr wrote:
> > Any advice, is there already a better (and portable) way? I haven't
> > found any similar patch in pkgsrc.
>
> The portable way is to ask nl_langinfo for the actual encoding of the locale
> and convert to that first. Afterwards mbstowcs can be used to convert the
> input string to a wide char string.
>
> Joerg

The code uses nl_langinfo() to get the local encoding, and then
uses iconv to do the translation. I didn't want to change the use
of iconv expecting to be a large change, but after your mail I
reviewed the code and I think that using mbstowcs() and wcstombs()
would be pretty easy.

Thanks for the suggestion.

adr