Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> - Use the system iconv when it exists and is sufficiently good
So what is Configure supposed to do?
- Feed a set of files through system's iconv
and check for correct results?
- How do I find out what names system iconv is using?
>
> - Use support included with Perl, or an external library such as libiconv otherwise.
>
>"sufficiently good" could even mean "has the exact same mapping tables as
>Perl". It would certainly mean including things like the CJK mapping tables.
>
>This is the approach that Pango and GTK+ take, and works fine. I
>don't really see any reason for when I'm running Perl/GTK+ for it to
>load up two copies of the Japanese mapping tables, just because there
>is some other operating system that doesn't have Japanese mapping
>tables in its libc.
>
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Nick Ing-Simmons
