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Re: new module iconv_open-utf
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: new module iconv_open-utf |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:27:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, it is clear what you mean. But adding a new API for a thing that
> mem_cd_iconveh should be able to do, just because there is a portability
> problem, is against gnulib's general approach. In gnulib we solve this
> by fixing the portability problem, not by adding new API.
>
> I'm adding a module 'iconv_open-utf' that enhances iconv_open() so that
> it supports conversion between UTF-8 and UTF-{16,32}{BE,LE}. Except on
> platform where iconv is entirely absent or unusable (such as OSF/1 4.0),
> this module allows you to use the mem_iconveh() function for doing conversion
> from an arbitrary encoding to UTF-{16,32}{BE,LE} or vice versa.
Thanks, this solves the problem elegantly!
However, Glibc's manual does not appear to mention the encoding names.
Thanks,
Ludovic.