[FreeBSD port]: devel/glib20

[Stanislav Sedov]

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:50:15 -0500
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> mentioned:

> On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 02:10 +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
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> > Hi!
> > 
> > glib20 has a known filename encoding problem with non-utf8
> > locales, because it doesn't perform names conversion from
> > internal UTF8 to current locale by default (it used to do
> > that some time ago). The patch included changes glib20
> > behaviour to always do the conversion (this will work
> > for all non-UTF8 locales and will have no effect fot UTF8
> > ones). This is effectively the same redhat & co does in
> > their deistributions.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> I have no objection, but I don't typically run into problems with
> non-UTF-8 locales.  I think it would be safer if you made this into an
> OPTION, and added this as an extra patch if the OPTION is enabled.
> 

Doesn't running gtk/glib (e.g. sylpheed, gimp) apps with non-UTF locale
break filenames for you? From looking into the code it's always the case
for non-UTF locales (well, if you running ISO8859-1 you shouldn't have
problems too). On the other hand enabling LANG-based locale detection should
not hurt prefromance much (I think the overhead of parsing LANG is neglible).
Sure, we can OPTIONfy this, but I belive the options should be enabled by
default in this case (otherwise, people will continue to step onto this
bug). Major Linux distributions also have this option turned on by default
to match the behavior of older version of glib where the locale detection
code was always enabled.

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE
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