Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Why is utf8 type _NOVERIFY, and other vocab stuff.

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:54:45PM +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > (Also,
> > there were reports that the _best_effort code didn't actually work
> > with lots of broken iconv's found in the wild...)
> 
> On Derek's super-laptop "UTF8 to ASCII//IGNORE//TRANSLIT" actually
> failed just like it was plain "UTF8 to ASCII". AFAIR it was a Gentoo.
> 
> I'm willing to debug it further, if someone gives me access to a system
> in which I can verify the failure... or, even easier, I could create a
> smallish program that only has a fixes UTF8 string inside itself and ask
> on the command line for a charset and simply call the iconv function
> with those 2 parameters...

There must be a solution to this, I would think, it can't be that
every program everywhere just crashes all the time whenever funny
charset stuff happens... maybe this is overoptimistic of me :-).

But I can imagine it turning out we have to include our own non-borked
iconv for broken systems.

-- Nathaniel

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