Re: Konqueror does not work with international domain names
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Hendrik Sattler writes:
> Am Sunday 04 April 2004 15:38 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
>> how do I make those IDNs work within konquerors address bar?
>>
>> All I get from Konqueror is An error occurred while loading
>> http://: No hostname specified.
> For all interested people: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70558
> It states that the idn lib is runtime detected. However, installing
> package libidn11 is NOT enough, you also MUST install package
> libidn11-dev.
> Why? The same problem as always: Debian does not ship the
> /usr/lib/libidn.so in libidn11 but only in the development package
> libidn11-dev. However, runtime detection does look for exactly that
> name.
Yes, you're right. As always, upstream KDE made the bad decision to
dlopen libs that weren't meant to be dlopen'd.
> My suggestion is to either make libidn11 include the link
That would be against Debian policy, I think.
> or make package kdelibs4 suggest or recommend libidn11-dev (or even
> depend on it)?
Yeah, I think at least a Recommends would be a good idea.
Calc: what do you think ?
> I'll make a comment about this, maybe the maintainer can close the
> bug report #237990?
Well, it should only be closed when the bug is fixed, that is, when a
recommends or depends is added to the package.
Thanks for your help
domi
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