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

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jason Short wrote:

> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=10027 >
>
> There should be a GNU library that provides a locale_charset() or
> nl_langinfo() that works.  Perhaps is libiconv, I dunno.  You'll have to
> install it and then rerun autogen.sh.

That library is called libcharset:
http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-libcharset.html

Seemingly it comes bundled with GNU iconv.

> We have to decide whether to support solaris iconv in the source, or put
> detection for it into the bootstrap and refuse to use it.

In case you people are wondering what the "646" stands for, it stands for
"ISO Standard 646", which is basically ASCII.

For more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_646
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso646.html

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa