[uClibc] Encoding Problems

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:46:12AM +0100, Moessner, Martin wrote:
> Hi to all,
> 
> I am using the Prebuilt Toolchain for i386 <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/uclibc/root_fs_i386.bz2>  successfully.
> 
> Developing a Web Frontend for embedded system. Now I have
> 
> some encoding problems with ?? ?? ?? aso. 
> 
> It seems like the toolchain doesn't support this stuff.  
> 
> Can some advice me how to fix the problem. Tried to define
> 
> an LC_TYPE=ISO-8859-1 which doesn't help.   

The prebuilt toolchains are limited to the C locale only.  If you want
support for other charsets and locales, you will have to build your own.
Please note that currently the only supported multibyte character set
for locales is UTF-8.  Some other charsets are supported by iconv
though.

Manuel