Subject: Re: Commit: wv iconv fix
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Sat Nov 18 2000 - 01:54:35 CST
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, ha shao wrote:
Hi,
Have you tested my patch? What were results?
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 06:13:58PM -0500, cinamod@hotmail.com wrote:
> > With some luck, the end of iconv problems. I'm thinking that all of our
> > iconv problems (wv's text.c and Abi's xap_encodingmanager and ispell code)
> > stem from compilers treating "char *" differently than "unsigned char *".
> > This may be worth looking into for the ispell code and encoding manager
> > code. That is, if this patch works for everyone (which, for once, I think it
> > will).
>
> The new cvs does not work for me. The reason? obuf != buffer2
> and you cannot do 'eachchar = (U16)buffer2'. So bitswap might
> be still needed for whatever system that is weird.
>
> Please refer the man 3 iconv to see how obuf is set.
>
> Attached patch fixed my problem with wvHandleCodePage. Since
> it created eachchar from buffer with bit shift, I have no idea
> if bitswap is needed. You can check that the result of
> eachchar = (U16)buffer2
> and the way it is assign in the patch are different.
>
> --
> Best regard
> ha_shao
>
>
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
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