Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:22:16 -0400 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls Message-ID: <20090313182216.GA8844@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903130910540.4522@thor.farley.org> References: <200903131040.n2DAecSO061131@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903130910540.4522@thor.farley.org>
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote: > Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1]. :) [...] > 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/iconv-2.1.tar.gz I asked a few weeks ago on standards@ why we weren't using Citrus iconv, which is what NetBSD uses, and seems to be in a somewhat better state than this. It also provides various wide character conversion routines that overlap with what tjr@ has already done in FreeBSD, so we'd have to sort that out. And we'd have to sort out a gazillion ports that want -liconv.
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