Re: pkg/39765: glib2 does not support WCHAR_T conversion using built-in iconv on NetBSD

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39765; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/39765: glib2 does not support WCHAR_T conversion using built-in
 iconv on NetBSD
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:49:17 -0400

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  I disagree with this analyses. glibmm makes the assumption that the
 >  internal encoding is constant, which is not valid. The correct code to
 >  use here is nl_langinfo to extract CODESET, use iconv to convert to that
 >  and then do a normal mbstowcs.
 
 glib should not behave different on NetBSD than Linux.