[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#10027) (civclient:12460): Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtktextbuffer.c: line 548: assertion `g_utf8_validate (text, len, NULL)' failed

["Brett Albertson" <brett.albertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10027 >

BTW, apparently the "646" encoding on Solaris is infamous.  It stands 
for ASCII, but isn't recognized by iconv_open().

See this comment from a java patch:

diff -ru gcc-20020325.old/gcc/java/lex.c gcc-20020325/gcc/java/lex.c
--- gcc-20020325.old/gcc/java/lex.c     Sat Mar 23 00:59:20 2002
+++ gcc-20020325/gcc/java/lex.c Wed Mar 27 09:38:10 2002
@@ -290,8 +290,13 @@
       /* If iconv failed, use the internal decoder if the default
         encoding was requested.  This code is used on platforms where
         iconv exists but is insufficient for our needs.  For
-        instance, on Solaris 2.5 iconv cannot handle UTF-8 or UCS-2.  
*/
-      if (strcmp (encoding, DEFAULT_ENCODING))
+        instance, on Solaris 2.5 iconv cannot handle UTF-8 or UCS-2.
+
+        On Solaris the default encoding, as returned by nl_langinfo(),
+        is `646' (aka ASCII), but the Solaris iconv_open() doesn't
+        understand that.  We work around that by pretending
+        `646' to be the same as UTF-8   */
+      if (strcmp (encoding, DEFAULT_ENCODING) && strcmp 
(encoding, "646"))
        enc_error = 1;
 #ifdef HAVE_ICONV
       else


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Brett Albertson
brett.albertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx