Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 03:47:22 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Differences between iconv from ports and iconv in base (transliteration) Message-ID: <20131206034722.1267aab5@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <20131206001554.0d9d3e23@bsd64.grem.de> References: <20131206001554.0d9d3e23@bsd64.grem.de>
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 00:15:54 +0100
Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> wrote:
> I'm in the process of changing ports from ports iconv to iconv in
> base. I noticed that transliteration doesn't work in base as it does
> with iconv from ports. Examples:
>
> "T\xc5\xbdst"
> ports: "TZst"
> base: "Tst"
>
> "T\xe2\x82\xacst"
> ports: "TEURst"
> base: "Tst"
>
> Conversion done using:
> iconv_open("ISO8859-1//IGNORE//TRANSLIT", "UTF-8");
>
> Any ideas?
>
I just checked /usr/src/lib/libc/iconv, it says in iconv_open:
/*
* Remove anything following a //, as these are options (like
* //ignore, //translate, etc) and we just don't handle them.
* This is for compatibility with software that uses these
* blindly.
*/
So basically any software that depends on using these options
will break.
The porters handbook doesn't mention the fact that converters/libiconv
and native iconv are not equivalent [1].
I think this is problematic.
[1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/using-iconv.html
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Michael Gmelin
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