Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] libiconv

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:

> Phil Martin wrote:
>
> > That's exactly the question that I have been thinking about too.
> >
> > I've searched the code but can't find anything directly referring to 
> > it. Not sure how to find where it's being pulled into the build.
> >
> > In general: the more external libraries we pull in, the more 
> > difficult it is to build the program and in particular to build 
> > Universal Binaries on the Mac.
>
>
> OK, it seems to me this is only being used by localenv.cpp. It uses
> it for three things: returning the thousands separator, decimal
> separator, and standard number of decimal places. The latter is
> not very useful (it's only useful for currency), and indeed though
> convert.cpp calls it, it discards the return value.
>
> So I would like to propose converting this over to use
> wxLocale::GetInfo(), which returns the former two OK, and
> using the fixed value 2 (for the latter) on non-MSW platforms.
>
> This should remove the libiconv dependency. Will this suit?
>
> Alex

It seems that anything with BSD in its heritage dislikes giving out this 
information. This will be the 2nd change to this area caused by a BSD 
related operating system.

I was thinking it was this code, but the man page didn't mention that 
these functions needed an extra library (possibly because they are in 
glibc on Linux) so I didn't mention it.

   Luke