Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:59:46 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, Konstantin Chuguev <Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk> Subject: Re: Proposal to include iconv library in the base system. Message-ID: <20000901185945.A29804@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008241719320.80086-100000@lion.butya.kz>; from bp@butya.kz on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:39:39PM %2B0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10008241719320.80086-100000@lion.butya.kz>
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:39:39PM +0700, Boris Popov wrote: > FreeBSD already contains a few character conversion schemes for > msdosfs, nwfs, cd9660fs and syscon mapping tables. However, the usage We need XLAT converters for them, not Unicode one, as I understand Unicode data loaded into kernel will be too big. > The questionable part is a which set of character sets should be > included in the base system and which should be supplied as packages. We need to include all charsets we have locale support in the base system. > Secondly, where should the functions be placed? Initially, the iconv /usr/libdata/iconv What I am not understand at this moment: how iconv handles non-convertable characters? I don't see any way to set fill character in described interface. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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