[Scrollkeeper-devel] scrollkeeper-0.3.x and GNOME 1.4.x

[Joe M. C. <ma...@Fr...>]

Hi, I'm with the FreeBSD GNOME porting team, and I recently ran into a
big problem when I upgraded scrollkeeper from 0.2 to 0.3.6 on FreeBSD. 
Some of the OMF files included with gnome-core (and I'm sure other GNOME
1.4 ports might have been affected as well) failed to compile under
scrollkeeper-preinstall because they contained illegal UTF-8 characters.

I realize this is due to the fact that scrollkeeper-0.3.x uses libxml2
which requires all XML to be in UTF-8 or -16 or have an encoding
directive in the <?xml ?> header.  I know this issue probably falls
squarely in the GNOME camp, but I thought I'd test the waters here, too.

Is there a way to get scrollkeeper 0.3.x to play nicely with GNOME 1.4.x
without going through and patching all the OMF files to have an
encoding="ISO-8859-1" directive?

Sorry if this has been asked before.  I couldn't find a good search of
the scrollkeeper-devel archives.  I'd be happy to receive any points or
other documentation to read.  I've through the Encoding section of the
libxml pages, but I didn't see anything other than adding the encoding
directive.  Thanks.

Joe