nick generation issues

[anonymous]

libiconv 1.9 and possibly below (which got used for g_convert under my compile) does not consider ASCIITRANSLITIGNORE to be a correct charset and will silently cause nick_format settings to not be used. Also lcnicks seems to be applied only to the fallback mechanism in nick_get and not results from nick_gen.

Note that this older version of libiconv considers ASCIIIGNORETRANSLIT and ASCIITRANSLIT and ASCIIIGNORE to be valid. I didn't do testing to see if these settings have correct behavior or how they compare to glibc's iconv behavior. From what I read behavior seems very inconsistent. Maybe g_convert_with_fallback using ASCIITRANSLIT might be a better option too?

[wilmer]

Yeah, lcnicks indeed doesn't work with nick_format. That's somewhat accidental, and I'm thinking of other ways to implement this/adding stuff like CamelCase (which is usually hideous but maybe not that bad for nicknames).

Have you checked that the iconv *version* is the problem? I've noticed that transliteration is also pretty sensitive to locale settings.

[anonymous]

On my old system my libiconv is quite old, and the newer versions don't seem to care what order IGNORE and TRANSLIT are in. It was quite confusing as to why nick_format didn't work for me though as it would just silently fail which led me to investigate the cause.

I did some testing and glibc iconv seems to not treat IGNORE as a real option (fails when it's the only option in use) and substitutes in anything it can't transliterate as ? whereas GNU libiconv respects IGNORE (stripping untransliterated characters) and fails with an error when just TRANSLIT is used. Also GNU libiconv doesn't require a UTF8 system locale to transliterate Latin supplementary characters but does it differently from glibc iconv...

Anyway I'd recommend replacing the g_convert( part, -1, "ASCIITRANSLITIGNORE", "UTF-8", NULL, NULL, NULL ); part with g_convert_with_fallback( part, -1, "ASCIITRANSLIT", "UTF-8", "", NULL, NULL, NULL ); in nick.c.

[wilmer]

Fixed. changeset:devel,678. I hope this solves the problem for all. Thanks!