From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6931 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 12:20:07 -0000 Received: from news.dotsrc.org (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 12:20:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 26117 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 12:20:01 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 12:20:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 13882 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2005 12:03:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 20795 Received: (qmail 13868 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 12:03:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO a.mx.sunsite.dk) (130.225.247.88) by sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 12:03:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 85989 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 12:02:15 -0000 Received: from mail36.messagelabs.com (193.109.254.211) by a.mx.sunsite.dk with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 12:02:08 -0000 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: okiddle@yahoo.co.uk X-Msg-Ref: server-22.tower-36.messagelabs.com!1107777725!13664384!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.8; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [158.234.9.163] Received: (qmail 23042 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2005 12:02:05 -0000 Received: from iris.logica.co.uk (158.234.9.163) by server-22.tower-36.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 7 Feb 2005 12:02:05 -0000 Received: from trentino.logica.co.uk ([158.234.142.59]) by iris.logica.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id j17C25Jt010244 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:02:05 GMT Received: from trentino.logica.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by trentino.logica.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCBE2E028 for ; Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:01:45 +0100 (CET) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-StarScan-Version: 5.1.13; banners=.,-,- From: Oliver Kiddle To: Zsh workers Subject: iconv issues, 4.2 branch Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 13:01:45 +0100 Message-ID: <8918.1107777705@trentino.logica.co.uk> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 on a.mx.sunsite.dk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=6.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Hits: -2.6 Having been away, I've not really followed the autoconf issues with detecting iconv on Cygwin and Mac OS X but I thought I should mention that GNU gettext comes with a file normally installed as /usr/share/aclocal/iconv.m4. If someone wants to look at it, it might do a better job of handling the different situations. It also detects the varying prototypes which currently causes compiler warnings on some systems. I didn't use it at the time because it seemed overkill. It also appeared to assume that iconv was essential, printing messages like "consider installing GNU libiconv". This isn't really appropriate for zsh given that, in many cases, \u/\U will work without needing iconv (specifically __STDC_ISO_10646__ plus wctomb and wchar_t available). So it may just be that some ideas can be taken from iconv.m4. Also, I've got a question about the zsh-4_2-patches branch? What is the plan: is all the unicode stuff going to form a 4.3.0 release once ready for testing with further 4.2.x releases coming on the 4_2 branch. It'd be useful to know just what sort of changes we should be applying to both branches and which only to HEAD. Oliver