Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Re: Libidn 1.13 test tst_toutf8 fails on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hello Simon,

Am 24.03.2009 um 08:25 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
> Thanks for the pointer.  As far as I can tell, you do agree that
> nl_langinfo(CODESET) passed as an argument to iconv_open should  
> work, at
> least internally on each platform.  Is that right?  If so, I don't see
> anything we can do about this in libidn (except to fix the  
> segmentation
> fault above, but that is already done).  Or is there a better way to
> find out what string to pass to iconv_open for the locale charset than
> using nl_langinfo(CODESET)?  I have been worried about nl_langinfo not
> being thread safe, and thus inappropriate for use in a library; it  
> is a
> minor problem that I haven't been able to solve.  If there is a better
> approach than nl_langinfo, libidn could use it.

Can I safely deploy libidn 1.13 on Solaris or do I need to wait on
an enhanced libiconv before doing so? I didn't have the problem with
the 1.9 version, so is it best to deploy an older version on Solaris
then?


Kind regards

  -- Dago