- From: Brian Gilkison <gilkison@one.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 22:32:08 -0500
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
> > Rest assured, if you see a large number of messages from me in any given > > time frame, it's usually about getting the Validator to work on NT again > > after some code changes have been made. > > I'd really like to get this fixed once and for all, but I don't have an NT > box at the moment. I'll try to get one set up sometime, but no guarantees. I'm happy to be a tester in the Win32 realm -- I think I've been that all along, as it seems my Perl skills are not much good otherwise :) > Text::Iconv is just a Perl wrapper for the iconv(3) functions from glibc; > the GNU C Library. These aren't available on Windoze so it will never work > there. However, if you have Cygwin running, it provides glibc so if it's up > to date it might work. At least version 2.1.something I think. After several unsuccessful attempts at building it myself (hey, I'm a Domino developer, not a C++ programmer), I sent a request to the Perl Win32 mailing list (Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com), and someone from ActiveState was kind enough to build a PPM package for Text::Iconv. I installed it earlier this evening, and it appears to be working as it should be, although if someone could share a URL I can hit to verify the Text::Iconv functions are working, I'd appreciate it. If anyone else wants it, the package is accessible from http://activestate.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/Text-Iconv.ppd. > Did you get Cygwin running? Short answer -- yes. Long answer -- yes, but I have no idea what to do about the error messages I was getting when I attempted to build Text::Iconv or libiconv from source... > An alternative is to disable the Iconv routines on Windoze and declare > charset conversion non-functional on that platform. Since SP has it's own > charset routines this should actually work most of the time in practice, See above... Brian > Brian Gilkison | http://w3.one.net/~gilkison/ < > gilkison@one.net | finger for PGP Public key < > < > Don't steal. The government hates the competition. <
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