Re: [Wvware-devel] Re: Font problem

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 --- Lars Hecking <lhe...@us...>
wrote: > Dom Lachowicz writes:
> > The problem is that MSFT stores strings in a
> variety of codepages inside of 
> > MS-Word. We need good ways to convert those to
> codepages suitable for 
> > storing inside of HTML, LaTeX, and friends.
> >  
> > Everyone uses iconv nowadays because there are
> about a billion different 
> > languages on  the planet, each with their own
> codepages and character sets 
> > (some of which grow into the millions of
> characters). People need a too like 
> > iconv in order to meaningfully exchange data and
> store it on disk.
> >  
> > If you can think of a better way to do this,
> please let me know :) I hate 
> > iconv more than the next guy, but in this case,
> it's entirely Sun's fault.
>  
>  Someone should tell Sun. Having to install GNU
> libiconv everywhere really
>  p*sses me off.

Why?  It serves a purpose and serves that purpose
well.
You only need one libiconv installed for all apps
that might use it.  Not having it there *will* make
things not work or will mean bloated apps that do all
the conversions themselves, like Mozilla.

Sun's broken iconv p*sses me off a whole lot more than
installing libiconv doesn.  Libiconv is pretty well
written and efficient in both size and speed.

I'm not sure if wv uses the same logic as AbiWord
for deciding whether to use the system iconv or
libiconv.  AbiWord rejects Sun's iconv unless you
specifically override it.

Andrew Dunbar.

>  I got wv 0.7.2 working fine now, using the libiconv
> plugin andadding the
>  LD_PRELOAD method.
> 
>  One thing I'd like to see in wvware: a PATH
> statement should be added
>  near the top of all scripts that points to the
> actual location where
>  wvware is installed
> 
>  PATH=@bindir@:$PATH ; export PATH
> 
>  This way, wvware is self-contained and can be used
> in an environment which
>  don't have wvware in its PATH (e.g. if you use it
> with IMP).
> 
> 
>
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