expression results

Jascha Wetzel "[firstname]" at mainia.de
Thu Apr 19 09:39:10 PDT 2007


i'll add a command to switch between utf8 and ascii output. i think that
it's okay to have utf8 by default, since it's the default for D too.

Davidl wrote:
> no, i would rather printed in the non-utf8 form. since most locale
> doesn't use utf8 and seeing their decimal/hex value is nonsense in
> most case of a string.
> I would appreciate another command to show it in ur way
> 
>> Hello. I have some notes regarding the expression results.
>>
>> Multiline strings are impossible to parse. Consider this example
>>
>> char[] str="line 1\n line \" more";
>>
>> In ddbg
>> = str
>> will look something like this
>>
>> ->= str
>> "line1
>>  line " more"
>>
>> so the end could not be determined.
>> Also char ch=255; results "4invalid utf8 sequence" in the results.
>> I suggest the type of the variable to be indicated in the output with
>> one letter including the string length. Then the chars could be
>> printed as decimal/hex value and if they are valid utf8 the symbol
>> itself could be printed too.
> 


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