Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/2] use libcharset.h with gettext if available

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 21:47, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm hoping it'll get into next soon so we can get more
>> reports/fixes like these. Anyway, I amended your patches a bit, here
>> are the changes:
>>
>>  * Split up the s/char*/const char*/ change into its own patch, or is
>>   there a reason for why this needs to be there along with the
>>   libcharset.h change?
>>
>
> The reason was that my version of locale_charset() returns a const
> char *, so I got a warning if I didn't. nl_langinfo() returns a char
> *, so I don't think that constness-fix patch makes sense in itself.
> But what might make more sense would be to squash it into the original
> commit for that line.

Ah, then it should be part of the patch. I'll add a note about the
different prototypes to it.

>>  * Added docs about the define to the Makefile
>>
>
> Nice!
>
>>  * Added defaults for NO_LIBCHARSET to the default, I only changed the
>>   defaults for the MINGW entry, maybe it should be changed on Cygwin
>>   and Windows too? And probably on OpenBSD and NetBSD too.
>>
>
> I don't think NO_LIBCHARSET should be the default. libcharset is
> reported to be a bit better than nl_langinfo at normalizing the
> encoding, and GNU gettext depends on libcharset (through libiconv,
> which libcharset is distributed with). So in the case of a GNU
> gettext, libcharset should really be present.

I can't find any package (with apt-file) on Debian or Ubuntu that
provides libcharset.h, but I have langinfo.h on those systems.

The GNU gettext manual also reccomends the use of nl_langinfo in
"11.2.4 How to specify the output character set `gettext' uses", so it
seems that using that and not libiconv is the default way of doing
things on GNU gettext + GNU libc systems.