--- F J Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "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 > > > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
