Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-08 Thread David Johnson
On Wednesday 08 April 2009 12:40:16 pm David Naylor wrote: Yes, I think it is more important to get Qt 4.5 into ports ASAP then waste time fixing this problem. This problem could be fixed later? Please see the attached patch that fixes devel/qt4-corelib (and thus Qt4.5 and libiconv). The

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-07 Thread David Naylor
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 07:25:16 David Johnson wrote: I played around with this, rebuilding libiconv after gettext, but to no effect. Oh well, it was worth a shot... I've managed to get Qt 4.5 to behave well with libiconv. It was a bit of a cheat though. There is also another solution.

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv [SOLUTION]

2009-04-07 Thread David Johnson
SOLUTION 1: Disable libiconv support altogether. This, I believe, is a viable solution since Windows does not have iconv and we should be using whatever fallback it does. This should result in no loss of functionality. This is what I am doing for non-port builds of 4.5.0. It's also what's

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday 02 April 2009 10:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it just doesn't.  My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides all the iconv functionality and that, somehow, libiconv and glibc differ in their

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Naylor
On Monday 06 April 2009 10:06:11 Adriaan de Groot wrote: On Thursday 02 April 2009 10:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it just doesn't.  My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides all the iconv

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 06 April 2009 01:06:11 am Adriaan de Groot wrote: So up until recently it did work. You don't say what the nature of behave is though -- does it not compile? Not run? To repeat David Naylor, it builds fine, but all glyphs at runtime are square boxes. So which one is implemented

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 06 April 2009 10:54:06 am David Johnson wrote: On Monday 06 April 2009 01:06:11 am Adriaan de Groot wrote: So up until recently it did work. You don't say what the nature of behave is though -- does it not compile? Not run? To repeat David Naylor, it builds fine, but all glyphs at

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-06 Thread David Johnson
On Monday 06 April 2009 10:25:16 pm David Johnson wrote: I'm attaching a screenshot I just made, to show the behavior. I always forget to attach my attachments :-( -- David Johnson attachment: screenshot.png___ kde-freebsd mailing list

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 02 April 2009 01:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: I configure Qt with --no-iconv for exactly this reason. Is there any functionality lost? Do you see *any* square blocks after doing this? I'm not seeing any squares. But I don't have a lot of documents in non-latin1 codecs. --

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Naylor
On Friday 03 April 2009 18:08:06 David Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 April 2009 01:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote: I configure Qt with --no-iconv for exactly this reason. Is there any functionality lost? Do you see *any* square blocks after doing this? I'm not seeing any squares. But I

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Johnson
On Friday 03 April 2009 11:02:20 am David Naylor wrote: What is the course of action from here? Complain to Qt Software, hope someone sorts it out or ignore the problem? Oh and how does one file a bug with Qt Software? A new bug reporting system is being setup, as Qt transitions to a more

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-03 Thread David Naylor
On Friday 03 April 2009 20:32:30 David Johnson wrote: On Friday 03 April 2009 11:02:20 am David Naylor wrote: What is the course of action from here? Complain to Qt Software, hope someone sorts it out or ignore the problem? Oh and how does one file a bug with Qt Software? A new bug

[kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-02 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it just doesn't. My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides all the iconv functionality and that, somehow, libiconv and glibc differ in their implementation and thus it breaks Qt (or Qt handles them

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-02 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:00:38 am David Naylor wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it just doesn't. My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides all the iconv functionality and that, somehow, libiconv and glibc differ in their

Re: [kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

2009-04-02 Thread David Naylor
On Thursday 02 April 2009 21:10:04 David Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 April 2009 07:00:38 am David Naylor wrote: Hi, I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it just doesn't. My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc provides all the iconv