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libidn package

  1. Bionic (18.04)
  2. Bug #1813587
  3. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1813587

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

its a build fix...
anyway, its a library, so not that easy to test, but I picked up gnome-characters, one of its reverse-dependencies that uses a lot of unicode, and it still works

gnome-characters
Gtk-Message: 09:13:35.039: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gtk-Message: 09:13:35.039: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
Gjs-Message: 09:13:35.042: JS LOG: Characters Application started
Gjs-Message: 09:13:38.057: JS LOG: Characters Application exiting
dpkg -l |grep unistr
ii libunistring2:amd64 0.9.10-1ubuntu1.18.10.1 amd64 Unicode string library for C

ii libidn11:amd64 1.33-2.2ubuntu1.1 amd64 GNU Libidn library, implementation of IETF IDN specifications
ii libidn2-0:amd64 2.0.5-1 amd64 Internationalized domain names (IDNA2008/TR46) library

to test libidn I installed and started successfully vlc.