Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:54:23 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UTF-8 <-> UTF-16BE Converter in Kernel Needs Test Message-ID: <20060812235423.af71b566.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <courier.44DE0FB1.0001160E@intron.ac> References: <courier.44DE0FB1.0001160E@intron.ac>
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You may try these patches, first. http://people.freebsd.org/~imura/kiconv/ It sounds like these patches implement better supports. Hiro On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:28:17 +0800 "Intron" <mag@intron.ac> wrote: > I'm sorry that I send my experimental patch set here to call for test. > But if I send it to freebsd-i18n@, I wonder no one will respond to me. > > Download: http://ftp.intron.ac/tmp/kiconv_utf8_20060813.tar.bz2 > > My patch set implements a UTF-8 <-> UTF-16BE converter for iconv in > kernel. It doesn't need kiconv(3) to send unnecessary UTF-8 <-> UTF-16BE > conversion tables to kernel. And it doesn't require the help of GNU > libiconv, which kiconv(3) depends on. > > With my patch set, if you mount FAT/NTFS/ISO9660 file system, less > resource will be occupied than before: > > mount_msdosfs -L ll_NN.UTF-8 /dev/md0s1 /mnt > > See my "readme.txt" for installation guide. > > ************ ATTENTION !!! ************ > > 1. Do NOT test my patch set upon your CRITICAL FAT/NTFS partition !!! > > 2. Limited by BUGGY FreeBSD modules msdosfs/ntfs/cd9660, whether you > use my patch set or not, only 1/2-byte UTF-8 character (up to 0x7ff) > is supported, which means only a few languages are supported. > > I will try to patch those modules to support all languages (up to > 6-byte UTF-8 character) included in current Unicode step by step. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From Beijing, China > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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