SpiderMonkey compiled without UTF-8 support

[kristina]

Binary package hint: xulrunner

I'm trying to create a package that depends on SpiderMonkey having UTF-8 support, but libmozjs-dev doesn't compile SpiderMonkey with it. developer.mozilla.org says: "It was possible to configure SpiderMonkey 1.7 to treat C/C++ char strings as UTF-8 by compiling with a non-default compiler option." Could the option be added?

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04, release 9.04, but it was true in 8.04, too. It's SpiderMonkey version 1.7.0.

[kristina (kristina-10gen)]

Okay, I've been messing around with the .deb, and I made a patch that builds SpiderMonkey with UTF8 support. Can I submit this to the package maintainer?

I don't have a lot of experience with this, so please let me know if anyone has any suggestions.

[kristina (kristina-10gen)]

Turns out SpiderMonkey 1.8 (which allow this option to be set at runtime) is available with xulrunner-1.9, so I'm all set.