From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 00:25:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B00191065676 for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:25:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5956B8FC0C for ; Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn7 with SMTP id 7so5733365iwn.13 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:25:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=L+naH46Ea+hQdBw9taDGmU/Sxcv/VbtMj4u/rkLjSi8=; b=YDx397BPe6lwZDpqJWcybhIwwTJO/rVfj5p0p1w52tPkEuIwcu7F9JfBSRDH08i6Nu +2+h90pFotAhBjbMupQzyRT2XmAVyIW38hPgRrGM6X6XHl9fkodhD5eyo+oQEgzW8xwK I5CKMmY0gVVHvjTdKZh/ydR4otmdkyBSlkEJI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=LLOy2Dld04oUVs1F0RaVWtSR9JUJSJdqiZu8Vt7uLD6mhv2CZHSjOtqWk8Q9MHm3H7 OhWKBDtOV04norRyJFxCta+6BArIxudZeeI8xjwAgRdeG7aOFT62Qf4eIMRBGlcsPH+w LcK6h9Qu4Qnlyfj7PXilL3mErKPfw04XR5ZQU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.69.71 with SMTP id y7mr6278984ibi.136.1276561508541; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.182.196 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:25:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C16C5B5.1070308@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C16C5B5.1070308@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:25:08 -0500 Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: Gabor Kovesdan Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Edwin Groothuis , FreeBSD Current , Xin LI , i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] BSDL iconv in base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:25:09 -0000 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > Hello Folks, > > during the last summer, Google generously founded my Summer of Code project, > which was providing a BSD-licensed iconv implementation for FreeBSD. I'm > proud to announce that the work has been completed and a patch is available > to add it to the base system. > > The results of this work are: > - The Citrus implementation has been ported from NetBSD. > - Some utilities have been added. There is a conversion table generator, > which can compare conversion tables to reference data generated by GNU > libiconv. This helps ensuring conversion compatibility. > - UTF-16 surrogate support and some endianness issues have been fixed. > - The rather chaotic Makefiles to build metadata have been refactored and > cleaned up, now it is easy to read and it is also easier to add support for > new encodings. > - A bunch of new encodings and encoding aliases have been added. > - Support for 1->2, 1->3 and 1->4 mappings, which is needed for > transliterating with flying accents as GNU does, like "u. > - Lots of warnings have been fixed, the major part of the code is now > WARNS=6 clean. > - New section 1 and section 5 manual pages have been added. > - Some GNU-specific calls have been implemented: iconvlist(), iconvctl(), > iconv_canonicalize(), iconv_open_into() > - Support for GNU's //IGNORE suffix has been added. > - The "-" argument for stdin is now recognized in iconv(1) as per POSIX. > - The Big5 conversion module has been fixed. > - The iconv.h header files is supposed to be compatible with the GNU > version, i.e. sources should build with base iconv.h and GNU libiconv. I've > just did a very quick test and it seems ports can safely link to GNU > libiconv, there's no conflict. > - Various cleanups and style(9) fixes. > - A bachelor thesis written in Hungarian language: > http://www.kovesdan.org/files/bsc_iconv.pdf > > The rather big patch (42,5M) is available here: > http://www.kovesdan.org/patches/iconv_base_integrate.diff Over 40 Megabytes?! WOW. Thank you for this incredible amount of work, I know the FreeBSD community will benefit greatly from it. I think this effort deserves some hardcore testing, so now to the FreeBSD community -- I know it will get the attention it deserves :) -Brandon