From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 10:05:12 EDT
--- F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>
wrote: > On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> > > It is meant to, but I have spent about an hour
> > > yeasterday on it, and
> > > did not succeed. Also, GLib 2.0 itself has
> couple of
> > > external
> > > dependences, iconv, and some other GNU library,
> name
> > > of which I
> > > do not remember of the top of my head.
> >
> > Which iconv? The many iconv implementations out
> there
> > are notoriously incompatible. I wonder if they
> > require libiconv or the system iconv, and I wonder
> if
> > this will be a problem for us. If we end up with
> > potentially 2 iconvs being used by different bits
> of
> > AbiWord that would not be nice.
>
> glib-2.0 depends on iconv and GNU gettext. As iconv
> implementations go,
> g_iconv is as ambiguous as they come. It's a pure
> wrapper in the current
> glib-2.0 source, so chances are people with glib-2.0
> will be using the
> system iconv implementation, or GNU libiconv if
> that's not present.
>
> I'm not sure about glib-2.0.1, but earlier glib
> configures get very
> confused if there's no system iconv, so... pain!!!
> (/me scowls at glib
> deelopers.) Not insurmountable, but.
>
> Anyway, if we're going to be using glib with all
> platforms - and I do hope
> we do - then we should be using glib's g_iconv
> rather than iconv directly.
> Of course, wv which uses iconv should be asked to
> use g_iconv as well.
If we do go with glib on all platforms we'll prob-
ably have to decide how much of it to embrace fully.
There seems to be a few things in glib that do pretty
much the same as some of our own utilities and a few
we could probably make use of.
It will probably make our UT_iconv stuff a lot
simpler if it becomes a wrapper only for g_iconv as
long as we can trust g_iconv as well as we can trust
our current iconv trickery (:
Andrew Dunbar.
> Frank
>
> Francis James Franklin
> F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
>
> "No, she really likes me. She told me I look like
> Britney Spears, and why
> would you say that to somebody you don't like?"
>
> --- Elle Woods
>
>
>
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