Re: Gnumeric 1.1.14

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:59:13PM +0900, Etsushi Kato wrote:
> First gnumeric cannot compile with -D_POSIX_SOURCE on Mac OS X, so I 
> deleted -Werror from configure script when checking -D_POSIX_SOURCE.

I don't understand.  The -Werror is only for the test to see if
-D_POSIX_SOURCE is necessary.
 
> Second, python-loader plugin cannot compile because of multiple 
> definitions of symbol _py_Boolean_object_type and so on.
sounds dicey.  Ignore the python plugin for now.

> Third, segfault occurred when saving file as Excel format on Mac OS X.  
> I found two glitches.  One is that p != NULL check is needed for 
> excel_write_string_len().
Hmm, I'll add the sanity check, but NULL should never arrive there.

> The other is, because Mac OS X with Fink 
> uses libiconv,  it is needed to use "UTF-16LE" for g_iconv_open in 
> ms_biff_put_new() on ms-biff.c.  It seems "UTF16LE" is not assigned as 
> alias of "UTF-16LE" on libiconv.
glibc has UTF-16LE as the primary name too.  I'll switch.

> With these modifications, I enjoyed gnumeric very much on Mac OS X.  I 
> can read and write Japanse Excel file.  Also Japanese XIM works fine.
Lovely.

I could actually use a few more test cases of japanese XLS files.
I'd like to validate
    - autofilters
    - input messages
    - data validation

If you have some time I'll post the details.

Thanks for the feedback,
    Jody