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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:29:18 +0100
From:      =?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIEvDtnZlc2TDoW4=?= <gabor@kovesdan.org>
To:        Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r341775 - in head: Mk/Uses converters/libiconv devel/gettext
Message-ID:  <52EA297E.6030607@kovesdan.org>
In-Reply-To: <52E97640.5020703@freebsd.org>
References:  <201401292024.s0TKOomF031237@svn.freebsd.org> <52E97640.5020703@freebsd.org>

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On 2014.01.29. 22:44, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 30.01.2014 0:24, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> >   - Add two new arguments to USES=iconv so ports can indicate they use GNU
>> >     iconv extensions that the base system iconv doesn't support yet:
>> >     * wchar_t: port uses the special WCHAR_T character conversion.
>> >     * translit: port uses //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE conversion options.
>> >     Adding one or both of these arguments makes the port depend on
>> >     converters/libiconv for now.
>> >   - Allow installation of converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10+.
> Delete-restore loop.
> What people smoke, replacing gnu iconv with system one without even
> implementing //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE first?
> At this stage looks more logical to implement them in the system iconv,
> rather than to return gnu one back.
>
In fact, system iconv uses //TRANSLIT by default. What it does not 
implement is the lack of //TRANSLIT. This is conformant to POSIX.

Gabor



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