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authorOwen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>2002-03-08 05:48:03 +0000
committerOwen Taylor <otaylor@src.gnome.org>2002-03-08 05:48:03 +0000
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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.
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- *** 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
==================