Re: [Bug-gnubg] Compile: Solaris 9

[Jim Segrave]

On Tue 05 Aug 2003 (06:25 +0000), Joern Thyssen wrote:
> 
> Jim posted a fix in the Convert routine a few days ago. I don't know if
> it is committed yet.

No, I didn't actually post a fix, because it's way too ugly and just
has to be wrong. There are two problems which need addressing:

One is why the (I think they are Posix approved) locale names are in
the form of xx_xx.ISO8859-yy  like de_DE.ISO8859-1 or
            xx_xx.ISO_8859-yy like de_DE.ISO_8859-1
while iconv_open is looking for char set names with a hyphen - 
ISO-8859-1. I'm curious what others who normally use other locales
have as LANG settings?

The other problem (which I can fix, but haven't) is that if iconv_open
fails, it will try to output an I18n error message, which will fail,
which will try to output the same message, ad infinitum (or
ad-stack-overflow).

A fix for the second problem is to force the character set to a known
(and hopefully present) setting before reporting the iconv_open
failure. It would be easy to force ISO-8859-1, but is it really safe
to assume that everyone will have support for this one even if it's
not their native character set?


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