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authorOwen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>2002-03-28 23:40:18 +0000
committerOwen Taylor <otaylor@src.gnome.org>2002-03-28 23:40:18 +0000
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Released 2.0.1upstream/GLIB_2_0_1
Thu Mar 28 18:25:14 2002 Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> * Released 2.0.1 * configure.in: Version 2.0.1, interface, binary age 1.
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General Information
===================
-This is GLib version 2.0.0. GLib is the low-level core
+This is GLib version 2.0.1. GLib is the low-level core
library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It
provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and
interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads,
@@ -24,16 +24,23 @@ Installation
See the file 'INSTALL'
-Notes about GLib-2.0.1
+Notes about GLib-2.0.0
======================
* On systems without the libintl from GNU gettext() or a recent version
of the GNU C library, the encoding of translated error messages will be
incorrect (they should be in UTF-8). A workaround for this is to install
- GNU gettext and use that libintl. This is expected to be fixed in GLib-2.0.2.
+ GNU gettext and use that libintl. This is expected to be fixed in GLib-2.0.1.
Application programmers should not call g_locale_to_utf8() on these
strings.
+* Similarly, the GLib error logging functions such as g_print(), g_warning(),
+ g_error(), currently do not convert the strings they are passed from
+ UTF-8 to the encoding of the locale, or check that the strings they
+ are passed are valid UTF-8. They should, despite this, be assumed to take
+ UTF-8 arguments.
+
+
How to report bugs
==================