From owner-soc-status@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 21 21:14:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: soc-status@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739991065670; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:14:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC848FC14; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:14:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E957714D8A05; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IRKpgT-TmA9f; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (catv-80-98-231-64.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.231.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2CF6B14D5FE3; Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:49 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A3EA2C6.4040504@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:14:46 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: soc-status@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: delphij@FreeBSD.org Subject: libiconv status report #3 X-BeenThere: soc-status@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Summer of Code Status Reports and Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:14:51 -0000 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