On Fri, 13.03.2009 at 14:22:16 -0400, David Schultz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote: > > Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1]. :) > [...] > > 1. http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/iconv-2.1.tar.gz > > I asked a few weeks ago on standards@ why we weren't using Citrus > iconv, which is what NetBSD uses, and seems to be in a somewhat > better state than this. It also provides various wide character > conversion routines that overlap with what tjr@ has already done > in FreeBSD, so we'd have to sort that out. And we'd have to sort > out a gazillion ports that want -liconv.
I, for one, would love to see some iconv overlo^Wsupport in base. That way, I could teach calendar(1) to translate stuff to LC_CTYPE, right now the German calendar file is saved in Latin1 whereas I'm using UTF-8 terminals :/ Cheers, Ulrich Spörlein -- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"