Because we can't make libxml1 non-backward-compatable. Anyways, once GNOME2 comes along, it won't be a problem since we will be moving to libxml2 which fixes the problem supposedly.
And to answer the "why not make bonobo-conf use libxml2 then?" question which I'm sure some people will be asking... the answer is because unfortunately you can't link to both libxml1 and libxml2 at the same time and GNOME already depends on libxml1 (via libglade, libbonobo, and a number of other things). Jeff On Wed, 2001-10-24 at 01:15, Thomas O'Dowd wrote: > 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. > > > -- > > > Thomas O'Dowd. - Nooping - http://nooper.com > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Testing - http://nooper.co.jp/labs > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > > > > > > -- > Thomas O'Dowd. - Nooping - http://nooper.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Testing - http://nooper.co.jp/labs _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
