Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:27:22 +0100 From: Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, demon@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: devel/gettext upgrade [patch] Message-ID: <3B13A3BA.E8506681@dante.org.uk> References: <200105291031.f4TAVLt05758@vega.vega.com>
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Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Since I did not receive any response from demon regarding my
> comments on his patch I've picked up the ball and did the work
> by myself. Attached please find resulting patch, please review
> it and let me know what do you think. Following are major changes
> compared to demon's version:
>
> - GNU iconv library used instead of BSD iconv. Unfortunately
> due to some strange reason gettext doesn't work with BSD
> iconv. For example when I'm defining LANG env. variable to
> ru_RU.KOI8-R I see `____' instead of Russian messages in
> all localised programs linked against libintl. This problem
> disappears when GNU iconv is used instead. I hope Konstantin
> will look into this problem and provide a fix before his
> BSD iconv will be imported into base system;
>
I'd like to see some details. In the current implementation, '_' is used for
characters non-existent in a destination charset. Conversion is completely
locale-independent, i.e. always produces the same result for particular pair
(src_charset, dst_charset), no matter what LANG and LC_* are set to.
I believe this is something to do with gettext's use of iconv. Where can I
get the new gettext to look at?
>
> - PLIST is now sorted properly;
>
> - charset.alias now being installed into libdata/ where it
> belongs instead of lib/;
>
Here is another thing: iconv also uses (its own) charset.aliases. I wonder if
it would be useful to merge them into one file...
Regards,
Konstantin.
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