Re: GNUstep usability under win32

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 07:01  am, Andreas Bohne wrote:

> > i also tried the defaults commands to set my time zone, but he 
> > creates no
> > file is the Defaults directory
>
> I had the same problem when I first tried GNUstep under MinGW some 
> time ago.
> It turned out then that I had not installed iconv (which was declared 
> as optional IIRC).
> Under MinGW, iconv is necessary to read/write the defaults database, 
> because it provides the needed UTF-8 encoding.

I think this was true of the 5.1 release, but it is no longer the case 
with the current (5.2) release.
In the current code, the bug writing the data is fixed (so it writes 
ascii as it should), and there is built-in support for utf-8 anyway.