From owner-freebsd-i18n Sat Sep 16 1:52:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-i18n@freebsd.org Received: from richard.eu.org (osf-dial1.taide.lt [193.219.244.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C8B37B424 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 01:52:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rch@localhost) by richard.eu.org (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) id e8G8g5201407; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 10:42:05 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Ri=C4=8Dardas_=C4=8Cepas?= To: "Michael C . Wu" , freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal to include iconv library in the base system. Message-ID: <20000916104205.B1223@richard.eu.org> References: <20000901185945.A29804@nagual.pp.ru> <39AFD666.880FE6C@dante.org.uk> <20000901205825.A30569@nagual.pp.ru> <39AFE5B6.1F418EDD@dante.org.uk> <20000916010804.A51927@peorth.iteration.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.7i In-Reply-To: <20000916010804.A51927@peorth.iteration.net>; from keichii@iteration.net on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 01:08:04AM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat Sep 16 01:08:04 2000 -0500 Michael C . Wu wrote: > P.S.#2: Does anyone know if Linux has a counterpart of ICONV? > Perhaps we should propose a standard. > It has since glibc2.1 though in glibc2.2 it is better. And of cource other unices had it for years though quality of implementation often is bad. As far as I heard iconv is needed for Unix(R) branding. -- ☻ Ričardas Čepas ☺ ~~ ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-i18n" in the body of the message