Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:33:48 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= <gabor@kovesdan.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system Message-ID: <49F6BF6C.1050903@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> References: <aa9f273a8313c6436e76fa9f5d587ef4.squirrel@webmail.kovesdan.org> <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU>
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David Schultz escribió: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Gábor Kövesdán wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> my name is Gábor Kövesdán. I'm a Hungarian student and I'll be working on >> a BSD-licensed libiconv implementation for FreeBSD during this year's >> Summer of Code program. It'll be based on NetBSD's Citrus iconv but there >> is a lot to do besides porting. My mentor is Xin Li. >> > > Nice. I'm sure many people will thank you for this. > I hope my work will be useful for the community. Btw, I suspected that you might be interested in this and I wrote a mail personally to you when I was looking for a mentor. Then I didn't resend it because delphij@ volunteered to be my mentor. Have you ever got that mail? If you find this an interesting project your comments, review, etc. are still highly welcome. > One complaint I've heard about both our wide character > implementation and Citrus iconv is that the internal (wchar_t) > encoding depends on the current locale. (Basically it uses a > packed binary version of whatever the external representation is.) > The relevant standards allow this, but it can be a pain for > application and library writers. One thing to think about is > whether it would make more sense to standardize on something like > UCS-4 for the internal representation. > I haven't got to such details yet, so I didn't know this. But UCS-4 seems to be reasonable for me. Cheers, -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL: gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:. gabor@kovesdan.org WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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