From kde-devel  Sat Sep 29 05:53:35 2007
From: "Gary L. Greene Jr." <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:53:35 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KDE3 thai word break: KLibLoader --> QLibrary
Message-Id: <200709282253.35182.greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
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On Friday 28 September 2007 10:43:07 pm Pattara Kiatisevi (list) wrote:
> Hi kde-devel,
>
> Currently rendering Thai text in KDE3's KHTML on Linux platform makes
> use of libthai's th_brk() to identify suitable word break positions (as
> Thai sentences have no space between words). If libthai is not linked to
> kdelibs (done so by configure --enable-libthai=yes), kdelibs will try to
> dynamically load libthai.so using KLibLoader (see
> kdelibs/khtml/rendering/break_lines.cpp).
>
> KLibLoader requires libthai.la, which recently has been removed from
> Linux distro's libthai-dev packages (e.g., in Debian), resulting in it
> couldn't load libthai at all, and all Thai web pages are incorrectly
> rendered, i.e., word breaking at wrong positions.
>
> One solution suggested by Theppitak as discussed in
> http://groups.google.com/group/thai-linux-foss-devel/ is to switch to
> use QLibrary instead, which won't need libthai.la. It will look for
> libthai.so directly (would be even better though if it will look for
> libthai.so.0 directly so that libthai-dev package needs not be installed).
>
> The attached patch is tested against kdelibs-3.5.6 on Ubuntu 7.04. Or
> you can grab it here:
> http://www.suriyan.in.th/patches/kdelibs-3.5.6-thai-break-qlibrary-instead-
>off-klibloader.patch
>
> Are we gonna have another release of KDE3? Is it possible to include
> this patch?
>
> Cheers,
> Pattara

This is a Debian specific packaging bug. Many distributions are still shipping 
libtool archive files. Please contact the packagers of KDE for Debian via 
http://bugs.debian.org/.

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