Re: [Evolution] why use hex in config.xmldb?

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom nooper com>]

I thought it might be something like that alright. How about fixing
libxml1 so it does the right thing? Still hex encoded strings is not
a bad solution for the meantime. Thanks for the explaination.

Tom.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:02:43AM -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I had to make bonobo-conf hex encode string because we were saving UTF-8
> strings. Unfortunately libxml1 does some whacked out shit with strings
> you pass to it instead of just strduping them and leaving them alone.
>
> Thus, for non use-ascii locales, config settings that had non us-ascii
> chars in them broke horribly.
>
> There were basically 2 ways to fix the problem... either:
>
> 1. Force the bonobo-conf to only allow UTF-8 strings (which'd make it a
> royal pain in the ass for other projects to use since gnome is not based
> on utf-8) and set the libxml1 doc's locale to UTF-8 and pray that it
> worked
>
> or:
>
> 2. hex encode the strings...
>
> I was talking to Havoc the other day and it seems he has run into the
> same problem in GConf which may be why GConf 1.0.5 (or whatever) broken
> GtkHTML if it linked against GConf for many Debian users. (just a
> theory, I could be 100% wrong here...I don't follow GConf development).
>
> Jeff
>
> On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:27, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just wondering why the strings in ~/evolution/config.xmldb are in hex?
> > This makes it harder to check/edit configuration, which is one of the
> > good things about xml. I know they used to just use plain text. Is there
> > a particular reason the strings are stored in hex now?
> >
> > Example:
> > <entry name="source_url_0" type="string" value="6d626f783a2f686f6d652f746f6d2f4d61696c2f65766f626f78"/>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tom.
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