Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 14:55:43 +1100 From: "Tim J. Robbins" <tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iconv utility and <iconv.h> Message-ID: <20020305145542.A30070@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20020304085300.GA51200@nagual.pp.ru>; from ache@nagual.pp.ru on Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:53:00AM %2B0300 References: <20020304182811.A29732@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020304085300.GA51200@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:53:00AM +0300, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > Loading whole charmap is unacceptable in any case, try to use loadable > modules instead or something like that. You may also look at another free > iconv implementation (currently semi-broken and unsupported) at > /usr/ports/converters/iconv. Search i18n@freebsd.org archives for more > info about iconv efforts (BTW, your message will fit better in that > mailing list). It's not the best way to do it, no. The standard doesn't require that all character maps be stored as files in this format, but it does require that iconv be able to load this type of file. POSIX character map files handle the ISO8859 series easily; it's only on huge maps like UTF-8 that it suffers. Neither GNU iconv nor the other port you pointed me at support POSIX character map files. GNU iconv seems horrendously bloated and unnecessarily complicated. Sigh. Back to the drawing board. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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