[Remind-Fans] Remind and UTF-8

Ruthard Baudach ruthard.baudach at web.de
Mon Apr 30 16:00:06 EDT 2012


>== Auszüge aus der Nachricht von  David F. Skoll vom 2012-04-30 17:57:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:29:05 +0200
> Ruthard Baudach <ruthard.baudach at web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Remind does support utf-8, if it's compiled with utf-8, or to be
> > exact, with wide caracter support. I needed some time to figure that
> > out. It would be nice to add this fact and the command line necessary
> > to compile remind with wchar support to the wiki.
> 
> "configure" should auto-detect the necessary headers and functions for
> UTF-8 support and automatically work with UTF-8 if your system's C
> library has the necessary functions.

OK -- I'm using ubuntu 10.10

Even as the distribution uses utf-8, the distributed remind binary does not
support it.
Simple compilation did not work, I had to use "make REM_USE_WCHAR" to enable it.

Strange, but worked

Greetings,

Ruthard


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