[kde-freebsd] Qt 4.5 and GNU iconv

[David Naylor]

On Monday 06 April 2009 10:06:11 Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Thursday 02 April 2009 10:46:24 pm David Naylor wrote:
> > > > I've been trying to get Qt4.5 to behave properly with libiconv and it
> > > > just doesn't.  My best understanding is that, under linux, glibc
> > > > provides all the iconv functionality and that, somehow, libiconv and
> > > > glibc differ in their implementation and thus it breaks Qt (or Qt
> > > > handles them differently).
>
> At least in Qt 4.4 -- the last I studied extensively, as someone else has
> done the Solaris 4.5 port this week -- it would go looking for GNU iconv or
> other iconv and the difference is hidden in QTextCodec. If there's iconv,
> an additional .so is produced and codecs behave as plugins; otherwise a
> number of codecs are compiled in to QtCore.

This is about what I have found out from my research.  I see little difference 
in the treatment between glibc and gnu iconv in QIconvCodec though...  From 
what I can see Qt 4.4 (in FreeBSD ports) does use gnu iconv.  

> So up until recently it did work. You don't say what the nature of "behave"
> is though -- does it not compile? Not run?

With Qt 4.5 (with gnu iconv) everything does compile fine except instead of 
rendering text everything is in square.  i.e. instead of showing text a 
square is rendered (the same thing kwrite does when the font doesn't support 
the given glyph?, except for all texts).  

Sorry but I didn't take a screenshot of it but can do should you require 
one :-)

Do you have Qt 4.5 working with gnu iconv (aka libiconv) under solaris?
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