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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:47:01 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
Subject:   Re: libbconv
Message-ID:  <54CAF0A5.6030705@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGHfRMCoX_e=QFtUDwMOBs4KoPeZ%2BTuh-MChBZHOvOUGKJ6jfg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/30/15 3:17 AM, NGie Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 1/28/15 11:03 PM, Dirk Engling wrote:
>>> On 28.01.15 16:02, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please try to reinstall the converters/libiconv port, which is what your
>>>> other ports are looking for.
>>> Thank you, sir :)
>>
>> of course you couId, I believe, just use libc which now contains a lot of
>> iconv stuff..
>> at least it appears that way to me..
> iconv in libc doesn't have full feature parity with GNU libiconv. We
> ran into problems with type widths at $work where some of our code was
> misbehaving because iconv wasn't functioning like GNU libiconv.
so who exactly did that import and why?
it causes quite a bit of confusion.




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