NetBSD Problem Report #39765

From jmcneill@black.invisible.ca  Sat Oct 18 23:13:59 2008
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From: jmcneill@invisible.ca
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Subject: glib2 does not support WCHAR_T conversion using built-in iconv on NetBSD
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>Number:         39765
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       glib2 does not support WCHAR_T conversion using built-in iconv on NetBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct 18 23:15:00 +0000 2008
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 19 13:50:02 +0000 2008
>Originator:     Jared D. McNeill
>Release:        NetBSD 4.99.73
>Organization:

	
>Environment:

	

	
System: NetBSD black.invisible.ca 4.99.73 NetBSD 4.99.73 (GENERIC) #10: Sat Oct 18 12:27:54 EDT 2008 jmcneill@black.invisible.ca:/export/home/jmcneill/branches/HEAD/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
	g_convert fails when trying to convert to or from WCHAR_T on NetBSD
	because of limitations in the system iconv implementation. glibmm
	uses this in its ustring class implementation, so any application
	using glibmm will fail.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Build the following application on NetBSD:


	$ cc glibconvert.c -o glibconvert `pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0`
	$ ./glibconvert


	** (process:5615): WARNING **: g_convert failed: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'WCHAR_T' is not supported


	The same application works fine on Linux:


	$ ./glibconvert 
	** Message: g_convert success


/* g_convert test application */
#include <glib.h>


int
main(void)
{
	GError *gerror = NULL;
	gsize read, written;
	gchar *convstr;


	convstr = g_convert("hello", 5,
			    "WCHAR_T", "UTF-8", &read, &written,
			    &gerror);
	if (convstr == NULL)
		g_warning("g_convert failed: %s\n", gerror->message);
	else
		g_message("g_convert success\n");
	return 0;
}


>Fix:

	


>Audit-Trail:
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/39765: glib2 does not support WCHAR_T conversion using
	built-in iconv on NetBSD
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:49:13 +0200


 On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:15:00PM +0000, jmcneill@invisible.ca wrote:
 > 	g_convert fails when trying to convert to or from WCHAR_T on NetBSD
 > 	because of limitations in the system iconv implementation. glibmm
 > 	uses this in its ustring class implementation, so any application
 > 	using glibmm will fail.

 
 I disagree with this analyses. glibmm makes the assumption that the
 internal encoding is constant, which is not valid. The correct code to
 use here is nl_langinfo to extract CODESET, use iconv to convert to that
 and then do a normal mbstowcs.

 
 Joerg

 
From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, 
 pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/39765: glib2 does not support WCHAR_T conversion using	built-in
 iconv on NetBSD
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:49:17 -0400


 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  I disagree with this analyses. glibmm makes the assumption that the
 >  internal encoding is constant, which is not valid. The correct code to
 >  use here is nl_langinfo to extract CODESET, use iconv to convert to that
 >  and then do a normal mbstowcs.

 
 glib should not behave different on NetBSD than Linux.

 
>Unformatted:

 	

 	

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