On Sep 17, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > David Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> Looks like it is coming from Apple's libSystem.dylib. I'll see if I >>> can find someone who knows about any Apple regex oddities. >> >> Well, here's some Apple regex oddity: The regex parser apparently >> doesn't like higher-than-ascii utf-8 unless the file it's working on >> starts with a utf-8 BOM (0xefbbbf). I can't even grep qif-parse.scm >> for the GBP symbol -- there is no output from the grep command. If I >> use bbedit to prepend the three hex bytes to the file, then grep >> successfully finds the symbols. But if the .scm file starts with the >> BOM, gnucash launch now fails with: > > Interesting! Do you have the Gnu Regex library available? What if > you explicitly link against that instead of using the regex in Apple's > libc? > > -derek
my googling suggests that the Gnu Regex library is part of gnu libc. If my understanding is correct, then pogma's answer is: "porting glibc and forcing your app to use it is nigh on impossible". How 'bout just converting the .scm files from Latin-1 to UTF-8? Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
