Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:05:55 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a GTK-using application crashes, when LANG is set to non-UTF8 Message-ID: <4C2E9B03.4070406@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4C2B626D.5000503@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4C2A4E53.8050408@aldan.algebra.com> <4C2A75DB.4030109@aldan.algebra.com> <4C2B626D.5000503@aldan.algebra.com>
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On 6/30/10 11:27 AM, Mikhail T. wrote: > 29.06.2010 18:38, I wrote: >> 29.06.2010 15:49, I wrote: >>> A user I support is struggling with an application (cairo-dock + >>> plugins), that crashes inside gtk/glib (stack below), when the LANG >>> environment variable is set to something like ru_RU.KOI8-R. >>> >>> Using ru_RU.UTF-8 works fine and the application speaks Russian in >>> both GUI and (rather chatty) stderr/stdout. I suspect, some common >>> mistake is made by the application's author -- any chance, we can >>> quickly patch it up in the port? >> This seems like a similar problem: >> >> http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=11936 > Ivan -- the maintainer of the cairo-dock ports (CC-ed) -- has confirmed, > that compiling devel/glib20 with -D__STDC_ISO_10646__ eliminates the > crash and allows the application (cairo-dock) to come up and properly > "speak" in the requested language using the non-UTF charset: > > -CONFIGURE_ENV= CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \ > +CONFIGURE_ENV= CFLAGS="-D*__STDC_ISO_10646__*" \ > + CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \ > > > Or, perhaps, this can be controlled by the the glib20-port's > "COLLATION_FIX" knob? If so, then it should be set /on/ by default... > > Would it speed things up, if I file an (urgent) PR regarding this? I > think, it would be prudent to ship 8.1 with this problem resolved... > Please, advise. Thanks! What affects does this have on UTF-8 locales? I briefly read through the related Solaris bug, and it seems like adding this definition could cause crashes for UTF-8 users. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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