Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] [PATCH] Support nl_langinfo (CODESET) correctly on OS/2

[Bruno Haible]

> >> +    { "CP1200",         "UCS-2" },
> > 
> > UCS-2 cannot be used as a locale encoding, since it is not ASCII 
> > compatible. This
> > cannot work.
> > 
> 
> setlocale() on kLIBC accepts "IBM-1200", "UCS-2" and so on.
> Nevertheless, UCS-2 should be removed ?

The locale encoding is the encoding of strings such as
  - the arguments of main(),
  - file names,
  - text read from stdin,
  - text read from stdout.

Applications use 'char *' (with implicit length as determined by strlen)
for such text. But 'char *' and strlen don't work with UCS-2 encoded
text (because it contains many NUL bytes).

Bruno