I was going through old mail and I discovered this. It doesn't use the glibc iconv syntax, but it does look pretty useful. The homepage mentioned at the end includes a summary of why the author did not implement iconv. -Geoff >Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 16:55:50 -0400 >Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 23:59:51 -0400 >From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois_Pinard?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Release: Free recode 3.5 >Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archive/latest/158 >X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello, everybody. > >After nearly five years since the last official release, I'm pleased to >announce that version 3.5 of the Free `recode' program and library is >now available. The canonical distribution point for this version is either: > > http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/recode-3.5.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/recode/recode-3.5.tar.gz > >An MS-DOS port of a late pretest may be found as file `recode.exe' in the >same directory. Thanks to all contributors, pretesters, and forum members. > >The `recode' library converts files between character sets and usages. >The library recognises or produces 215 different character sets and surfaces >under 673 names and is able to transliterate files between almost any pair. >When exact transliteration are not possible, it may get rid of the offending >characters or fall back on approximations. Most RFC 1345 character sets >are supported. The `recode' program is a handy front-end to the library. > >Most reported problems are solved. Some bugs or suggestions may be pending. >Send your reports to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. There is a home page >under construction at `http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/recode/HTML'. ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the htdig3-dev mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the single word "unsubscribe" in the SUBJECT of the message.
