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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:18:26 +0100
From:      Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl>
To:        Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>,  Robert Burmeister <Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: devel/glib20
Message-ID:  <53026082.6020308@rainbow-runner.nl>
In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1ttGAovcJwA3udUU0X8v-WYWR-vj_k8Y2_tJXAivOTcGw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 17-2-2014 6:31, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Robert Burmeister <
> Robert.Burmeister@utoledo.edu> wrote:
>
>> Was the 16 Feb 2014 change to glib20 2.36.3_2 to now require
>> converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10 deliberate?
>>
>> Koop's commit message included:
> "Add back depend on libiconv. This is needed because our base iconv doesn't
> do utf-8 -> wchar_t apparently. [2] wchar_t is used by glibmm."
>
> So it was clearly deliberate. I am a bit surprised as I have had no issues
> with glib20 and no iconv. I also have glibmm and no iconv. But I use
> en.US.UTF-8, so I may not hit the relevant code path. But I was certainly
> able to build both without having iconv installed from ports.
>

The issue was showcased by graphics/rawtherapee (crash on launch). And a 
chat with one of the glib developers also showed some subtle issues 
regarding base iconv UTF-8 handling. All of this locale stuff is over my 
head though.



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