Quoting Ulrich Spörlein <uspoerl...@gmail.com> (from Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:35:34 +0100):

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 :/

Anorther approach would be to make calendar DTRT with UTF-8... one step into this direction (german UTF-8 catalogs) is at http://svnweb.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/user/netchild/calendar-utf8/

Bye,
Alexander.

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