Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Re: Libidn 1.13 test tst_toutf8 fails on Solaris 8 Sparc w/Sun Studio 11

[Simon Josefsson]

Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello Simon,
>
> Am 24.03.2009 um 08:25 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
>> Thanks for the pointer.  As far as I can tell, you do agree that
>> nl_langinfo(CODESET) passed as an argument to iconv_open should
>> work, at
>> least internally on each platform.  Is that right?  If so, I don't see
>> anything we can do about this in libidn (except to fix the
>> segmentation
>> fault above, but that is already done).  Or is there a better way to
>> find out what string to pass to iconv_open for the locale charset than
>> using nl_langinfo(CODESET)?  I have been worried about nl_langinfo not
>> being thread safe, and thus inappropriate for use in a library; it
>> is a
>> minor problem that I haven't been able to solve.  If there is a better
>> approach than nl_langinfo, libidn could use it.
>
> Can I safely deploy libidn 1.13 on Solaris or do I need to wait on
> an enhanced libiconv before doing so? I didn't have the problem with
> the 1.9 version, so is it best to deploy an older version on Solaris
> then?

I'm surprised that there would be a difference between libidn 1.9 and
libidn 1.13 here.  I don't recall any code changed in this area between
these versions.  Maybe you could try to pin-point in which version it
stopped working?

/Simon