On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 19:40 -0500, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 12:35 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 10:53 -0500, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > > > I have seen recent commit WRT string collation in devel/glib20 by > > > marcus, so I have decided to check if there is an interest to fix SEGV > > > in g_utf8_collate when it is given 8-bit non-UTF-8 string(s) to collate. > > > > Any commits I have made in the area of UTF-8 are completely accidental. > > I am not the UTF-8 guy. Both bland and jylefort have expressed interest > > in this. Perhaps one of them will comment. > > I hope so. Just in case, they would decide to, I have reduced the > situation to the small program below. I get > > GLib-CRITICAL **: g_convert: assertion `str != NULL' failed > > and no core dump from this simple program, whereas Evolution manages to > pass NULL to strcoll further down in g_utf8_collate and get SEGV for its > pains.
That sounds like a no-no for Evolution to be dereferencing a NULL pointer. Hopefully they'd fix this to prevent the problem. > > Conversely, if the answer still is "Evolution should not have done > that", I will happily crawl back under my rock and keep my patch > locally. I can't imagine you're alone in this. But then again, any Cyrillic mail that comes my way is always spam, so what do I know. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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