Automake configuration with '--with-included-iconv'

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 03:14:54PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 18/11/2020 à 14:43, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
> > > I think it is only useful for compiling with mingw32, but my memory is
> > > fuzzy.
> > > 
> > > Removing it would be a good option otherwise.
> > 
> > I think we use it for converting characters between encodings? I don't
> > know anything about it, I just know that it has yelled at me before with
> > messages like the following:
> > 
> >    https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11865
> 
> I meant "removing it from 3rdparty/", of course we rely on it currently.
> 
> Concerning conversion, we could rely on Qt, but it is 16bits oriented AFAIK,
> or on the underlying ICU which Qt uses anyway. I am not sure how to do that
> best, though.

We have several tests set up that we can use to check whether other
solutions work well. In fact, some of the tests fail when compiling LyX
with our included iconv but not when compiling LyX with a system iconv
(on Ubuntu 20.04 and 19.10 at least). The tests consist of exporting the
files in autotests/export/latex/unicodesymbols with many different
encodings.

Scott
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