Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Autotools patch

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 01:43  PM, Alexander Strange wrote:

>> I finally figured out why it might be barfing on InfoPlist.strings. 
>> The file is encoded in unicode-16.
>>
>> So if I put the whole file properly into unicode-16, then ./configure 
>> can no longer substitute its values.
>>
>> On the other hand, Project Builder seems to be reasonably happy if I 
>> change the file's encoding to unicode-8. (And this makes ./configure 
>> happy too)
>>
>> Happen to know if there's anyway to tell configure and its tools to 
>> treat the file as unicode-16? I'm ok with changing the encoding to 
>> unicode-8 myself. But it possible I'd rather leave it in PB's 
>> originally suggested encoding.
>>
>> -Jeremy Parsons
>
> I don't think configure is very good at Unicode; the substituting is 
> probably done with sed, if you want to take a look at it.

I can't quite seem to figure out if there's anything you can pass to 
sed to fix the problem. On the other hand it process all of the .in 
files at once. I'll shift InfoPlist.strings to utf-8.

Now you said this was a preliminary patch. Are you going to have a 
cleaned up and/or improved version to try?

-Jeremy Parsons