libglib2 iconv failure

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: libglib2 iconv failure
started by: stupid_idiot

Posted by stupid_idiot on Sep. 23 2007,00:39

'/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.600.4' seems to use gconv (which is absent from DSL) rather than libiconv (which is present in DSL).
iconv conversions will fail when using GTK2 apps such as Firefox. A typical warning message is like this:

Code Sample

(firefox.bin:[process-id]): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported

May I suggest that libglib2 in future DSL revisions be compiled against libiconv?

Thanks very much.

Posted by curaga on Sep. 23 2007,07:46

It would take less trouble to include the gconv modules, and only little space if they only included ones between iso-8859-1 and utf-8..