[Mono-bugs] [Bug 77394][Nor] Changed - Mono.Unix.Catalog broken under Windows

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Changed by jonpryor at vt.edu.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=77394

--- shadow/77394	2006-01-28 14:13:33.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/77394.tmp.28805	2006-01-28 20:41:38.000000000 -0500
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 Bug#: 77394
 Product: Mono: Class Libraries
 Version: 1.1
-OS: 
+OS: unknown
 OS Details: Windows XP SP2
 Status: NEW   
 Resolution: 
-Severity: 
+Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Normal
 Component: Mono.POSIX
 AssignedTo: miguel at ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: kde at valkyrie.one.pl               
 QAContact: mono-bugs at ximian.com
 TargetMilestone: ---
@@ -64,6 +64,38 @@
 Every time.
 
 ------- Additional Comments From kde at valkyrie.one.pl  2006-01-28 14:13 -------
 Created an attachment (id=16412)
 testcase
 
+
+------- Additional Comments From jonpryor at vt.edu  2006-01-28 20:41 -------
+The fix is in, it's just not in the installer. :-)
+
+Here's what's happening: the Mono.Unix.Catalog within
+gtksharp-runtime-2.7.1-win32-0.2.exe is an old version, before we got
+it working on Windows.  In particular, the version within that
+installer uses System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.StringToHGlobal
+to create the strings that are passed to "intl.dll."  The problem is
+that on Mono, Marshal.StringToHGlobal is a UTF-8 conversion, while on
+.NET it converts the string into the user's locale.
+
+Because of this, the intl.dll will get invalid strings (it wants
+UTF-8, and it's not getting UTF-8), which is why the directories that
+filemon is listing are screwy.  It's also why Catalog.GetString()
+doesn't give you anything sensible -- the message catalog is in UTF-8,
+but the strings .NET is passing to intl.dll!gettext are in your
+current code page, so they never match.
+
+The fix is simple: use a current Mono.Posix.dll, which always encodes
+strings as UTF-8 before passing them to intl.dll.
+
+That's easier said than done, though, since the newer Mono.Posix.dll
+Mono.Unix.Catalog depends on MonoPosixHelper.dll, which wasn't
+included in the gtksharp-runtime-2.7.1-win32-0.2.exe installer, so
+simply downloading a new Mono.Posix.dll won't help, you need both a
+new Mono.Posix.dll and a MonoPosixHelper.dll.
+
+paco has been alerted of this, so his next installer will include an
+updated Mono.Posix.dll and MonoPosixHelper.dll.  Hopefully he'll be
+able to get a new installer out before leaving for 4 weeks of
+presentations...