On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> wrote: > Fair enough ... but iconv() is part of POSIX, so assuming that it's available > is reasonable (if you don't have iconv(), we basically give up in terms of > handling different character sets).
Sadly, iconv() in practice is a nightmare. The versions shipped with base OS systems vs. how applications expect to see the gnu-ized version(s) makes it impossible to keep a clean build environment in the face of the two. (I just spent two days fighting this battle porting code to FreeBSD.) Sucking in a POSIX-compliant iconv lets us be consistent everywhere. And if ours is tightly POSIX compliant, we are no more wrong than anyone else. --lyndon
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