Re: [PATCH] gettext: use libcharset when available

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 16:05, Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com> wrote:
>> libcharset provides an even more portable way of quering the charset
>> of the current locale.
>>
>> Use that instead of nl_langinfo unless NO_LIBCHARSET is set.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Windows doesn't have langinfo.h and nl_langinfo(), but libcharset was
>> invented for this very purpose. With this patch on top, ab/i18n
>> compiles without errors in msysGit.
>>
>> There's still a bunch of lower-level issues on Windows, like gettext
>> ending up overloading our winansi-wrappings for printf and friends,
>> but let's take thinks one step at the time :)
>>
>>  configure.ac |    6 ++++++
>>  gettext.c    |   10 +++++++++-
>>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
>> index 1821d89..d3139cd 100644
>> --- a/configure.ac
>> +++ b/configure.ac
>> @@ -810,6 +810,12 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADER([libintl.h],
>>  [NO_GETTEXT=YesPlease])
>>  AC_SUBST(NO_GETTEXT)
>>  #
>> +# Define NO_LIBCHARSET if you don't have libcharset.h
>> +AC_CHECK_HEADER([libcharset.h],
>> +[NO_LIBCHARSET=],
>> +[NO_LIBCHARSET=YesPlease])
>> +AC_SUBST(NO_LIBCHARSET)
>> +#
>>  # Define NO_STRCASESTR if you don't have strcasestr.
>>  GIT_CHECK_FUNC(strcasestr,
>>  [NO_STRCASESTR=],
>> diff --git a/gettext.c b/gettext.c
>> index 8644098..902268c 100644
>> --- a/gettext.c
>> +++ b/gettext.c
>> @@ -1,13 +1,17 @@
>>  #include "exec_cmd.h"
>>  #include <locale.h>
>>  #include <libintl.h>
>> +#ifndef NO_LIBCHARSET
>> +#include <libcharset.h>
>> +#else
>>  #include <langinfo.h>
>> +#endif
>>  #include <stdlib.h>
>>
>>  extern void git_setup_gettext(void) {
>>        char *podir;
>>        char *envdir = getenv("GIT_TEXTDOMAINDIR");
>> -       char *charset;
>> +       const char *charset;
>>
>>        if (envdir) {
>>                (void)bindtextdomain("git", envdir);
>> @@ -20,7 +24,11 @@ extern void git_setup_gettext(void) {
>>
>>        (void)setlocale(LC_MESSAGES, "");
>>        (void)setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "");
>> +#ifndef NO_LIBCHARSET
>> +       charset = locale_charset();
>> +#else
>>        charset = nl_langinfo(CODESET);
>> +#endif
>>        (void)bind_textdomain_codeset("git", charset);
>>        (void)setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "C");
>>        (void)textdomain("git");
>
> Thanks for porting it to Windows. Some points:
>
>  * Nit: Should be NEEDS_LIBCHARSET instead of NO_LIBCHARSET, all the
>   variables that set library inclusions in the Makefile use the
>   NEED_* names.
>

That's not true, at least NO_OPENSSL, NO_PTHREADS, NO_ICONV,
NO_LIBGEN_H, NO_MMAP and NO_SYS_SELECT_H use the NO_-prefix to include
libraries (as opposed to the NEEDS_-prefix). And to be honest, I think
the NEEDS_-prefix would be a lie in this case; we don't NEED it, we
take advantage of it if it's there.

To be honest, I just mimicked what was done for detection of gettext.
Perhaps HAVE_LIBCHARSET_H would be the appropriate define? It's what
we use for paths.h (HAVE_PATHS_H)...

>  * Their patch compiles a program that includes libcharset.h and
>   compiles "const char* charset = locale_charset();". I don't know if
>   this is needed, or whether just checking the header name like
>   you've done will do.
>

I don't think there's any point to it - libcharset.h is pretty much
just about that one function. And if it turns out I'm wrong, we can
add a check like that in the future.

>  * They also have a HAVE_LANGINFO_H define and fall back on just
>   returning "", which works on GNU iconv. Maybe we should do this
>   too?
>

Perhaps, but can't that wait until we encounter a system that needs it?

What's interesting there is what you say about GNU iconv handling "".
This means that the minimal fix for Windows could be even smaller -
we're using GNU iconv :)

> I'm not sure about any of this, since I've just been testing on
> Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD.

I think Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows is a pretty wide selection
of platforms, so I hope it should be pretty painless once this hits
'next'. Sure, there might be some platforms that needs a fix-up, but
there always is with new code. And besides, there's even time to test
more platforms before merging to 'next', no? :)