Geoff Hutchison writes:
> At 6:25 PM +0200 9/2/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > There is also a recently released (June) library called ICU from
> >IBM (licence is IBM Public Licence, rated Open Source compliant by
>
> Remember that ht://Dig is not "Open Source." It is 100% GPL, and this
> means it is not necessarily compatible with some "open source"
> licenses. I haven't seen the IBM Public License, but this is
> something to consider.
Yes. I did consider that and this is not a big problem as long as the
ICU lib is a shared lib. GPL does not contaminate sources/objects that are
in separate files.
> > glibc iconv/wchar : requires work to make it a standalone library
> >
> > libunicode : not 100% stable although quite mature
>
> I guess my first question would be whether these two groups have
> considered getting together. Is there a reason that the GNOME folks
> have decided to form a libunicode beyond what's in glibc?
I don't know but I guess the answer is yes since libunicode author is
a Cygnus employee.
> My second question is whether the glibc folks (or anyone else)
> intends on making the iconv/wchar code into a standalone library or
> if we'd have to do it ourselves.
As far as I know they do not. My company is ready to hire someone to
do the job (we actually found someone ready to do this on www.cosource.com).
But it does not make sense to do it if libunicode is the answer.
> I'm just one vote, but I'd say that stability should be a secondary
> consideration at the moment--this will not make it into 3.2 (as much
> as I'd like it to), so there will be time for the library to
> stabilize.
Good point. I'll play with ICU and libunicode to give you a more
authorized opinion.
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