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On 2012-05-30 03:08, edwin.zhai@intel.com wrote:
> From: Zhai Edwin<edwin.zhai@intel.com>
>
> All,
>      This patch use glib as unicode backend to avoid browser crash
>
> webkit-gtk depends on ICU for the unicode, but ICU is not safe when build and
> target system owns different endian. ICU's community is not responsive to make
> a patch for this, so glib is used as work around here.
>
> [YOCTO #1570] got fixed
>
>
> The following changes since commit f28209d9d3c67203a2c7a2b25cacfe31643d1bfa:
>
>    cooker.py: terminate the Parser processes (2012-05-25 11:39:33 +0100)
>
> are available in the git repository at:
>    git://git.pokylinux.org/poky-contrib gzhai/fix3
>    http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=gzhai/fix3
>
> Zhai Edwin (1):
>    webkit-gtk: Use glib as unicode backend to avoid browser crash
>
>   meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_svn.bb |   10 +++++++++-
>   1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Note: any big-endian target will probably suffer the same as PowerPC,
so should this not also be extended to those, e.g. big-endian MIPS, etc?

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