This is apparently part of the wide-oriented stream support? Extending
the conversion from wchar encoding to bytes ?

       In addition to the above characters, *fopen*() and *freopen*()
       support the following syntax in *mode*:

           *,ccs=**string*

       The given *string* is taken as the name of a coded character set
       and the stream is marked as wide-oriented. Thereafter, internal
       conversion functions convert I/O to and from the character set
       *string*. If the *,ccs=**string* syntax is not specified, then the
       wide-orientation of the stream is determined by the first file
       operation. If that operation is a wide-character operation, the
       stream is marked wide-oriented, and functions to convert to the
       coded character set are loaded.


On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:47 PM Thiago Macieira via SG16 <
sg16_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Sunday, 21 March 2021 06:40:44 PDT Victor Zverovich wrote:
> > > Strictly speaking, that's implementation-defined. You can reopen stdout
> > > with the ",css=<codec>" flag to fopen to cause transcoding to happen.
> >
> > Interesting, would it be standard-compliant? In any case, MSVC doesn't
> do it
> > according to the test.
>
> Yes, it's standards-compliant to transcode. The ",ccs" argument is not in
> the
> C standard (see https://cigix.me/c17#7.21.5.3) nor POSIX[1] but informing
> how
> you want the C library to transcode does not prevent it from choosing to
> do so
> on its own. The existence of wprintf() is sufficient reason for that
> ability
> to exist.
>
> MS documentation[2] is that the ",ccs" argument can be used to specify one
> of
> the Unicode encodings, but not the ACP (I guess that's just the default).
> The
> glibc documentation says that any encoding understood by iconv is valid
> there.
>
> [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fopen.html
> [2]
> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/fopen-wfopen
>
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