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From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: UTF-8 <-> UTF-16BE Converter in Kernel Needs Test
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You may try these patches, first.
http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/

It sounds like these patches implement better supports.

Hiro

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:28:17 +0800
"Intron" <mag@intron.ac> wrote:

> I'm sorry that I send my experimental patch set here to call for test.
> But if I send it to freebsd-i18n@, I wonder no one will respond to me.
> 
> Download: http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/kiconv_utf8_20060813.tar.bz2
> 
> My patch set implements a UTF-8 <-> UTF-16BE converter for iconv in
> kernel. It doesn't need kiconv(3) to send unnecessary UTF-8 <-> UTF-16BE
> conversion tables to kernel. And it doesn't require the help of GNU
> libiconv, which kiconv(3) depends on.
> 
> With my patch set, if you mount FAT/NTFS/ISO9660 file system, less
> resource will be occupied than before:
> 
> mount_msdosfs -L ll_NN.UTF-8 /dev/md0s1 /mnt
> 
> See my "readme.txt" for installation guide.
> 
>                 ************  ATTENTION !!!  ************
> 
> 1. Do NOT test my patch set upon your CRITICAL FAT/NTFS partition !!!
> 
> 2. Limited by BUGGY FreeBSD modules msdosfs/ntfs/cd9660, whether you
>     use my patch set or not, only 1/2-byte UTF-8 character (up to 0x7ff)
>     is supported, which means only a few languages are supported.
> 
>     I will try to patch those modules to support all languages (up to
>     6-byte UTF-8 character) included in current Unicode step by step.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                                  From Beijing, China
> 
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