From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 08:50:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00DD106566B for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:50:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from server.mypc.hu (server.mypc.hu [87.229.73.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E1A08FC12 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:50:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gabor@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82DFC14D5379; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:34:01 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Received: from server.mypc.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.mypc.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 617Ydm55RFyW; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.105] (catv-80-98-231-64.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.231.64]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.mypc.hu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAF3E14D536F; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:34:00 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <49F6BF6C.1050903@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:33:48 +0200 From: Gabor Kovesdan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_K=F6vesd=E1n?= , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20090427183836.GA10793@zim.MIT.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:50:38 -0000 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