[FreeBSD port]: devel/glib20

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 17:18 +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
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> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:50:15 -0500
> Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> mentioned:
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> > On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 02:10 +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
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> > > Hi!
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> > > 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?

Maybe.  But with a locale of en_US.UTF-8, I don't tend to run into
non-UTF-8 filenames.

>  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.

Admittedly, I can't appreciate the scope of this problem.  Bland has
already chimed in on this, and I know he's done some work on i18n in the
past.  I'll defer to his judgment.

Joe

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