Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:46 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: soc-status@freebsd.org Cc: delphij@FreeBSD.org Subject: libiconv status report #3 Message-ID: <4A3EA2C6.4040504@FreeBSD.org>
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Hello, this week's progress: - Clean up in the esdb and csmapper databases. This means, finally we have working Makefiles to install them correctly on FreeBSD. This seems to be a misc part of the work but actually, it is important that we can easily add/modify conversion tables. I've tried to generalize the building of these pieces of metadata and made a mini-framework for that. - Added a TESTING-HOWTO as we can easily install iconv now. - Fixed some issues showing up in the GNU regression tests by adding -INTERNAL and -SWAPPED encoding forms for UTF/UCS family. The former always means using the machine byte order, while the latter one is the swapped byte order. GNU regression tests use UCS-4-INTERNAL and by implementing it in a compatible way, lot of regressions went away in other encodings, as well. - While here, added some more aliases used in GNU iconv for the UTF/UCS family. - Finally, really fix BOM handling. - Nits in the test suite. - Some investigations about some encoding variants. Short-term TODO: The basic encodings seem to be well supported, except UTF-8 and UTF-7, which still have some issues according to the GNU regression test. The next important task is to fix UTF-8 before I can pass to the CJK encodings. I don't consider UTF-7 very important because it is kind of a legacy encoding but it would be nice to finish the whole UTF/UCS family, so I'll look into it, as well. Cheers, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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