I've finally figured out why arm-mingw32ce-windres doesn't handle utf8-encoded .rc files correctly but don't know what to do about it. It has to do with how autoconf works for binutils.
The problem is in wind_MultiByteToWideChar(), in src/binutils/binutils/winduni.c. That function has three conditionally compilied sections coded: #if defined (_WIN32) || defined (__CYGWIN__) // use win32 API to convert utf-8 to utf-16 #elif defined (HAVE_ICONV_H) // use iconv() to convert utf-8 to utf-16 #else // do something stupid that only works for 7-bit ascii #endif I'm compiling cegcc on Debian, and it's the #else path that's being used. It's broken -- that is, it doesn't know what to do with utf8, and instead of failing noisily it does the wrong thing silently. The fix would seem to be to get HAVE_ICONV_H defined by the configure process, but I can't figure out how to do that. configure.ac for binutils doesn't reference iconv.h the way configure.ac does for gcc, so there's no way for HAVE_ICONV_H to get defined. I haven't checked whether the precompiled cegcc tarball on sourceforge has the same problem (mishandled utf-8 .rc files) but suspect that it does. The problem seems to be that configuring binutils doesn't check for iconv at all. I'm new to autoconf. Any suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks, --Eric -- ****************************************************************************** * From the desktop of: Eric House, xwo...@eehouse.org * * Crosswords 4.2 for MS Smartphone and PocketPC is OUT: xwords.sf.net * ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp asthey present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://www.creativitycat.com _______________________________________________ Cegcc-devel mailing list Cegcc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cegcc-devel
