-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Vincent Lefevre on 11/14/2008 7:12 PM:
Hello Vincent, and thanks for the report. > A number of utilities, including bison, m4 and findutils, install a > charset.alias file under Mac OS X, and this breaks the locale system > (any locale is regarded as UTF-8) [*]. The problem has been around > for a couple of years. You are better off filing this report against gettext, which is the source of this file, and/or gnulib, which ships the latest version of this file even in packages (such as m4) that have not yet undergone the I18n conversion to use gettext. Feel free to drop everything besides bug-gnulib and bug-gnu-gettext when replying. At any rate, the charsets.alias file has been shipped by gettext and any project that uses gettext for years, in order to accomplish message translation. If this file interferes with correct locale behavior, then it is a bug that should be fixed at the gettext source, rather than writing a bug report against every package that happens to use gettext or gnulib, but where the subsidiary packages have no control over the problem. > > Moreover, even if it didn't break anything, the file is overwritten > when another such software is installed. The installation process is supposed to modify, not overwrite, the charset.alias file to append the names of additional packages that are using it. > > [*] > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11474 > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/11968 > http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17084 > - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkeTAwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCKmACg0VG4i4HtiDMydG2Ofq454qNi wl0AoL1qjC4MtA0zr68aoc0mThfFJ8KK =AtpR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
