Re: [evolution-patches] UTF8 configure test

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le vendredi 14 octobre 2005 à 11:14 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast a écrit :
> why not iso-8859-1?
> 
> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 16:09 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317451 contains a patch which
> > changes the configure test that checks for UTF-8 support in iconv.  It
> > currently tries to convert from Japanese to UTF-8, but that fails in
> > certain embedded devices which support UTF-8 but not all locales.  The
> > patch changes it to convert from ISO-8859-15 (Western Europe) to UTF-8,
> > thus performing the same check but with far more likelyhood of passing
> > on embedded systems.

iso-8859-15 is the replacement for iso-8859-1, which supports new
glyphs, such as euro symbol.

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