From owner-freebsd-i18n Fri Sep 1 8: 0:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F010237B424; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 08:00:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e81Exnp29833; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:59:49 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from ache) Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:59:46 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Boris Popov Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG, Konstantin Chuguev Subject: Re: Proposal to include iconv library in the base system. Message-ID: <20000901185945.A29804@nagual.pp.ru> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bp@butya.kz on Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:39:39PM +0700 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 05:39:39PM +0700, Boris Popov wrote: > FreeBSD already contains a few character conversion schemes for > msdosfs, nwfs, cd9660fs and syscon mapping tables. However, the usage We need XLAT converters for them, not Unicode one, as I understand Unicode data loaded into kernel will be too big. > The questionable part is a which set of character sets should be > included in the base system and which should be supplied as packages. We need to include all charsets we have locale support in the base system. > Secondly, where should the functions be placed? Initially, the iconv /usr/libdata/iconv What I am not understand at this moment: how iconv handles non-convertable characters? I don't see any way to set fill character in described interface. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message