Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:41:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-developers@freebsd.org, freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposal to include iconv library in the base system. Message-ID: <200009161941.PAA43745@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <39C3936F.F31FC97@dante.org.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008241719320.80086-100000@lion.butya.kz> <20000901185945.A29804@nagual.pp.ru> <39AFD666.880FE6C@dante.org.uk> <20000901205825.A30569@nagual.pp.ru> <39AFE5B6.1F418EDD@dante.org.uk> <20000916010804.A51927@peorth.iteration.net> <39C3936F.F31FC97@dante.org.uk>
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<<On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:36:15 +0100, Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk> said:
> Regarding a new library structure, I'm thinking about: - converting
> CCS tables dynamically linked modules to binary architecture
> independent files; - building CES encodings as modules for
> libiconv.so and kernel, and statically into libiconv.a (similar to
> PAM library). The .so CES modules together are currently about 45K
> in size. Some CES could be compiled into libiconv.so, too. I just
> cannot decide which of them. Any suggestions?
This seems like a good idea. I would even go so far as to include the
most important character sets and encodings in both versions. I think
the following ones might qualify as important:
(character sets)
ISO-8859-1
ISO-8859-15
${MAKE_CONF_VARIABLE}
(encodings)
ISO-8859-* eight-bit
UTF-*
This is admittedly a rather Western-European-centric view of the
matter.[1]
-GAWollman
[1] However, some Western European languages aren't covered by this
set; Welsh is an example (requires ISO-8859-14 IIRC).
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