Re: [Synaptic-devel] Download window not showing proper UTF-8 code

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:08:31PM +0300, Sviatoslav Sviridov wrote:
> > They are in cvs now. I think we should release 0.32 in the next few
> > days. I think Sviatoslav applied a few rpm fixes today :) So, if noone
> > finds new bugs, I will release Wednesday or Thursday.
> 
> Yes, patche applied to cvs now.
> There still some bugs:
> 
> - when local package is newer, then in information window I can see
> information only about installed package, but for available I see "N/A",
> while in list I see version of available package.

Thanks, this is fixed now. 
 
> - when local package is newer or does not exist in repository, then
> description of rpm packages retreived in current locale. but to display
> it in Description window it should be in UTF8. I tried to use iconv()
> for convert strings - it works. (it seems that other way is to set
> locale with UTF8 enconding before calling functions where package
> information retreived from rpm packages, but it didn't work for me (may
> be I did something wrong)).

Does the glib function g_locale_to_utf8() help you here? 

> When I complete patch - I'll send it here.

Please do so.

> But I just want know is it needed only for rpm-based systems or for
> debian too. Does .deb packages contains localised description?

No, debian does not use localised descriptions (yet). At least not in
the offical apt (there are patches for this). So I don't have this
problem :)

thanks,
 Michael

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