Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:35:04 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [patch] glib20, UTF-8 and string collation Message-ID: <1199900104.304.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1199893999.756.29.camel@RabbitsDen>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:53 -0500, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > I have seen recent commit WRT string collation in devel/glib20 by > marcus, so I have decided to check if there is an interest to fix SEGV > in g_utf8_collate when it is given 8-bit non-UTF-8 string(s) to collate. Any commits I have made in the area of UTF-8 are completely accidental. I am not the UTF-8 guy. Both bland and jylefort have expressed interest in this. Perhaps one of them will comment. > > Good (but by no means only) example of this would be using Evolution to > open mailbox with the mix of KOI-8, CP1251 and UTF-8 message subjects > and order them by the subject. Admittedly, I do not know whether there > are special symbols that trigger the situation or any mix would do. vova > at fbsd ru posted test case mailbox under the link below. > > Full discussion including my first approach to fix this problem could be > found here > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492389 > > Slightly different approach is attached to this E-mail. I'm not sure why the malloc and copy. Why not just use g_strdup()? > > Without either patch, my Evolution will core dump on start-up. > > First patch was rejected by gnome folks with the recommendation "Don't > do that", which, unfortunately, is not that easy to follow ;) > > Any comments from people with the knowledge of gnome, UTF-8 and string > collation will be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping someone like bland chimes in here. Touching glib in such a way makes me nervous, but bland has had experience, especially with Cyrillic, so maybe he can offer some additional tips or insight. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHhQXEb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgnPAKCjG2DNvrzU8MJNG7UGt3qoUytI0ACbB6cK +IuJ047ghlGithkFbovyQxw= =ztkG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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