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| author | Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> | 2002-03-08 05:48:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Owen Taylor <otaylor@src.gnome.org> | 2002-03-08 05:48:03 +0000 |
| commit | dac25522cd299436ac1a7fe366e66d9a348e1715 (patch) | |
| tree | c0bda6224d0e1e5b6bea685d652efb1d0dd5bda7 /README.in | |
| parent | 27d7a012ffa8303789d252d681e8dc55c1205533 (diff) | |
Updates.
Fri Mar 8 00:15:29 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
* README.in: Updates.
* README.in: Add warnings about current encoding problems with .po
files and error logging functions.
* configure.in: Check for bind_textdomain_codeset().
* glib/gutils.c (_glib_gettext): Call
bind_textdomain_codeset, if present.
* INSTALL.in: Some updates.
* AUTHORS: Updates.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove TODO.xml from EXTRA_DIST.
* docs/Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove Changes-2.0.txt
from EXTRA_DIST.
Diffstat (limited to 'README.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | README.in | 41 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 15 deletions
@@ -1,21 +1,11 @@ - *** IMPORTANT *** - -This is a development version of GLib. You should be using a stable -version, which is available at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/. This -version is meant for developers of GLib only: - - * You should not base stable software on this version of GLib. - * GNOME developers should use a stable version of GLib. - -*** You should be using GLib 1.2 instead. *** - - General Information =================== -This is GLib version @GLIB_VERSION@. GLib is a library which includes support -routines for C such as lists, trees, hashes, memory allocation, and -many other things. +This is GLib version @GLIB_VERSION@. GLib is the low-level core +library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It +provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and +interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, +dynamic loading, and an object system. The official ftp site is: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk @@ -34,6 +24,27 @@ Installation See the file 'INSTALL' +Notes about GLib-2.0.0 +====================== + +* On systems without the libintl from GNU gettext() or a recent version + of the GNU C library, the encoding of translated error messages will be + incorrect (they should be in UTF-8). A workaround for this is to install + GNU gettext and use that libintl. This is expected to be fixed in GLib-2.0.1. + Application programmers should not call g_locale_to_utf8() on these + strings. + +* The results of g_strerror() are currently in the encoding of the locale + rather than in UTF-8. Again, this is a bug, and not behavior that + should be relied upon. + +* Similarly, the GLib error logging functions such as g_print(), g_warning(), + g_error(), currently do not convert the strings they are passed from + UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale, or check that the strings they + are passed are valid UTF-8. They should, despite this, be assumed to take + UTF-8 arguments. + + How to report bugs ================== |