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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:57:15 -0600
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Stas Myasnikov <myst@tut.by>
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Subject: Re: What's difference between iconv and libiconv ports?
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In the last episode (Mar 16), Stas Myasnikov said:
> Could anyone tell me what's difference between iconv and libiconv 
> ports?

iconv is a BSD-licensed charset conversion library (doesn't seem to
have been unpdated since 2000), libiconv is the GNU one that most
programs expect.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com