Re: [BUG] Blank about dialog box - does everyone have a funcional iconv ?

On Fri, 11 May 2007 16:32:49 +0400
Alexander Orlov <alxorlov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 May 2007 20:00:51 +1000
> <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Here BUILDSTAMP is in current locale encoding (which is KOI8-R in my 
> > > case).
> > > While other strings will be converted to UTF-8 by gettext. So BUILDSTAMP
> > > and BUILDDATE should be converted to UTF-8 too, prior to go to 
> > > g_strdup_printf.
> > > This can be done either at buildtime, like this:
> > > 
> > > --- emelfm2-devel/Makefile.orig   2007-05-10 19:19:13.000000000 +0400
> > > +++ emelfm2-devel/Makefile        2007-05-10 19:19:06.000000000 +0400
> > > @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@
> > >  RELEASE=
> > >  #RELEASE=.1
> > >  PROGNAME=emelFM2
> > > -TIMESTAMP=$(shell date +"%02d %b %04Y")
> > > -DATE=$(shell date)
> > > +TIMESTAMP=$(shell date +"%02d %b %04Y" | iconv -t utf-8)
> > > +DATE=$(shell date | iconv -t utf-8)
> > >  INFO=$(shell uname) $(shell uname -r)/$(shell uname -m)
> > >  COPYRIGHT=2003-$(shell date +"%04Y"), tooar <tooar@xxxxxxx>
> > >  OPSY := $(shell uname)
> > > 
> > > Or at runtime, using iconv.
> > Do all OS's that support gtk (or more particularly, upon which emelfm2 might
> > be built for use with gtk) also have a functional iconv utility on hand, by
> > default ? I thought I read somewhere that this is not so ??
> I do not know exactly. But I think that there might be a system without
> iconv command. So that strings should be converted to UTF-8 at runtime,
> after all emelfm2 already uses convertion functionality from glib.
> 
> > I suppose that any "make" argument that may be supplied on a shell command
> > line, and those arguments' derivatives (paths derived from PREFIX, document
> > names) also needs conversion, potentially.
> Well, in build.h I found only two strings - BUILDSTAMP and BUILDDATE. It is
> unlikely that someone wants to set PREFIX or *_DIR in encoding other then 
> ASCII.
Current svn has runtime encoding-conversion for Makefile-derived strings which 
include day-name and/or month-name text (TIMESTAMP and DATE, in the above 
lines), and for file-system paths derived from PREFIX.

Regards
Tom


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