Bug#272295: Unit test failure problem detected (buggy UTF-16 implementation upstream)

[Barry Hawkins]

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Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> 
> the unit test failure in lucene is caused by a buggy UTF-16
> charset implementation upstream.
> 
> A patch is already proposed and I added additional information
> and a testcase to the already existing upstream bug.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008
> 
> There are two ways to go:
> 
> 1) Patching kaffe with the proposed patch
> 2) Switching kaffe to use the iconv provider by default
> 
> I have currently a patch for kaffe to enable iconv only
> for the non-default charsets (which would otherwise fail)
> 
> We will have to discuss that with Dalibor and Michael if
> we should enable iconv provide as the default one.
[...]
Wolfgang,
    Do you know if this patch has already been applied to kaffe?  I ran
the build this morning with the kaffe 1.1.6-3 package and the unit test
passed!

Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
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