Re: AIX running but ... libiconv isn't !

From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 09:51:33 EDT

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     --- Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio
    <A-Varesio@eads.matradatavision.com> wrote: > Hi guys,
    > you were right. The iconv routine set is not working
    > as expected.
    >
    > AIX is not offering 'same codeset conversion', so
    > the various
    > initialization tests are all failing:
    > iconv_open( "UCS-2", "UCS-2" ) finds no converter
    > and returns
    > the -1 fail code. :( -- this is a noop conversion,
    > hence no conversion :)
    > Maybe there is a different way to test for an
    > encoding ...

    Upon further reading you better tell us what you find
    here too:
    ls -R /usr/lib/nls/loc/uconvTable
    ls -R /usr/lib/nls/loc/uconv

    > Peer libiconv is not building correct libraries on
    > AIX, since AIX has
    > some weirdiness on shared libraries ... so i had to
    > manually compile
    > source code, hack the binaries and statically link
    > them to the program.
    >
    > Now the program correctly handles kbd input and
    > displays my typed chars !!
    > It also handles fonts and scaling !!
    > Tis is not a solution for an AIX build, but it's
    > working ...
    >
    > One passed, one new :
    >
    > No way to load a Word .doc file ...
    >
    > DEBUG: s_AskForPathname: frame 20163888, bSaveAs 0,
    > suggest=[]
    > DEBUG: fileOpen: loading
    > [/home/avaresio/Ponte_26.doc]
    > DEBUG: DOM: trying to load
    > /home/avaresio/Ponte_26.doc (0, 0)
    >
    > ** WARNING **: I won't mmap that file, using a
    > slower method
    >
    > DEBUG: DOM: pagesize: (landscape: 0) (width:
    > 8.268056) (height: 11.693056)
    > (paper-type: 0)
    > DEBUG: Oh no - we just segfaulted!
    >
    >
    > --
    > Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio AKA BlueRider
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