On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:34:34 -0800, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
Additionally, since it is a very new change (and thus 'unsafe') I was going to make the behavior switchable using a preference and a run-time switch. Additionally, to keep the impact to a minimum, I'm planning on making it default to use the old loading on anything but windows.
And please do this only after 0.41 is out because:
The net result would be a) Windows users could load filenames that aren't in the 8-bit local encoding.
This seems like a very unfrequent operation to me. In fact I'm not even sure how to get such filenames on Windows.
b) Windows users would have .svgz working without relying on tricky link/build magic between libxml2 and zlib.
This tricky magic seems to work at this point of time, so let's not break it, at least not for the release.