Re: libxml2 in gnome 1.4
- From: James Henstridge <james daa com au>
- To: Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>
- Cc: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>, ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>, GNOME hackers <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: libxml2 in gnome 1.4
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:36:30 +0800 (WST)
On 22 Mar 2001, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> > GLib 2.0 has functions g_locale_to_utf8() and g_locale_from_utf8(),
> > maybe someone can come up with a canonical standalone version of those
> > to be cut-and-pasted all over the place to deal with libxml.
>
> Can we backport the equivalent functions from XML2 and put them on
> XML1?
Just to clarify my previous message, I don't think libxml handling
character encodings is bad. I just question whether adding the support to
the 1.x branch at this point is a good idea (especially so close to the
gnome 1.4 release).
I am guessing that there is a lot of code that uses libxml1 and doesn't
handle character set conversions, and I can see this change breaking
them. Yes the programs are broken, but they are relying on certain
behaviour from libxml, which should probably not be changing in a point
release.
Having backports of g_locale_to_utf8() and g_locale_from_utf8() would be a
good interim solution though.
James.
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