Re: win32 libiconv(?) problem

The problem is that glib's new win_iconv implementation doesn't have
UCS4 support. Track progress on bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525972

(10:32:01 AM) dom: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520914
(10:32:10 AM) dom: ucs2 wasn't in the list as of a month ago
(10:32:15 AM) dom: ucs4 still isn't in the list
(10:32:21 AM) dom: that's the problem
(10:32:47 AM) ryanmac: Dom is a man of action!
(10:33:25 AM) ryanmac: so this will be one of those "use anything
before x.x.x or after y.y.y"
(10:33:53 AM) dom: yeah
(10:34:07 AM) ryanmac: alrighty
(10:34:07 AM) dom: just be sure to ship glib > 2.16.2 in your installer :)
(10:34:16 AM) dom: or something from the 2.14 series
(10:34:30 AM) ryanmac: if you could throw that on the list that would
be ideal, my scrollbacks go byebye too easily

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:31 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 07:57 -0400, Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Robert Staudinger
> > <robert.staudinger@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:45 AM, J.M. Maurer <uwog@uwog.net> wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to get AbiWord to compile and work on win32 mingw/msys. I get
> > > > it to compile just fine, but running is a whole other ballgame.
> > > >
> > > > Attached a screenshot of the first assert I get. I tried using tons of
> > > > different iconv packages, but all resulted in the exact same problem
> > > >
> > > > Anyone a clue?
> > >
> > > Maybe a good time to throw out our iconv code entirely and use g_iconv ...
> >
> > I don't understand. Our ut_iconv code uses g_iconv under the hood.
> > This has been the case throughout the 2.5 series. [1]
> >
> > If you're using a really new glib, they recently changed it so that it
> > didn't have a libiconv dependency any more. Instead, it's implemented
> > in terms of native Win32 functions like WideCharToMultiByte(). Perhaps
> > that's the cause of the problem.
> >
> > Dom
> >
> > 1: http://www.abisource.com/viewvc/abiword/branches/ABI-2-6-0-STABLE/src/af/util/xp/ut_iconv.cpp?view=co
>
> Hmmm, interesting. I'll try to see if I can get rid of iconv altogether
> in my tree.
>
> Thanks!
> Marc
>
>
>

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