--- Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
--- Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> --- Alberto 'JCN-9000' Varesio
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
> Andrew
> > Dunbar wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I suggest building a debug version, running
> it,
> > > > pressing just a couple of keys, both letters
> and
> > > > spaces, then quitting.
> > > > Send the entire debug log output and the exact
> > > > sequence of keys you pressed to the dev-list
> > here.
> > > > Some of the devs will sift through it and
> should
> > > pick
> > > > up some AIX oddities that nobody expected.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Status :
> > > Reconfigured source tree with --enable-debug
> and
> > > recompiled
> > > Got 40 Mb exec file. ( AbiWord_s )
> > > Attached you have log file and file saved.
> > > Keys pressed are 'qwerty v' : just 9
> keystrokes.
> > > On the file only the two blanks !!
> > > On each non blank keystroke I trigger an
> > assertion
> > > !!
> >
> > Here is your problem:
> > DEBUG: Building XAP_EncodingManager
> > DEBUG: This iconv does not support UCS-2BE!
> > DEBUG: This iconv does not support UCS-2LE!
> >
> > AIX's iconv does not support UCS-2BE or UCS-2LE
> > which are needed. I think only one of them is
> > absolutely needed. Can you find the documentation
> > for
> > AIX's iconv and send the relevant excerpt to the
> dev
> > list for us to see if these encodings have
> different
> > aliases from those Abi currently supports?
> > This should be fixable. Thanks for the log!
>
> Further to this I've tried searching IBM's site
> for
> info on its iconv() implementation in AIX but
> can't
> find anything useful.
> We have this code in EncodingManager.cpp:
> iconv_handle_N2U =
>
UT_iconv_open("UCS-2",that->getNativeEncodingName());
> iconv_handle_U2N =
>
UT_iconv_open(that->getNativeEncodingName(),"UCS-2");
> iconv_handle_Win2U =
> UT_iconv_open("UCS-2",winencname);
> iconv_handle_U2Win =
> UT_iconv_open(winencname,"UCS-2");
>
> Which opens and iconv handle with the literal
> string
> "UCS-2" which any decent iconv() should support.
> There are two possibilites:
> 1) AIX supports UCS-2 but uses some other name such
> as
> "UNICODE" or "UCS2".
> Solution: if you can find out which name
> to use we can add aliases to the iconv sniffer and
> add a method to EncodingManager to get the "real
> name" for the encoding like we do for some other
> encodings.
>
> 2) AIX doesn't support UCS-2 at all.
> Solution: Always build on AIX with libiconv
>
> Please reply when you know the situation.
Just found this at
http://oss.software.ibm.com/glibctest/gettingstarted.htm
which may be of help:
First let's check a variety of character encoding
supported by Glibc using the following command:
$iconv --list
This example displays the names of hundreds of
character encodings.
Andrew Dunbar.
=====
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