Re: Emacs rewrite in a maintainable language

[Ludovic Courtès]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> skribis:

>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 16:29:00 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> 
>> >> This needs an overhaul of GUILE's string handling (which delegates
>> >> parts of it to helper libraries, some of those being under control of
>> >> GNU, some not).
>> >
>> > String handling is partly delegated to GNU libunistring.  There’s no
>> > other library involved.
>> 
>> What about libiconv?  It would appear that parts of it are in the GUILE
>> source tree (admittedly, under GNU control).
>
> libunistring calls libiconv.

‘iconv’ is in libc on most systems though, the exceptions being Windows
and old proprietary Unices, AFAIK.

Ludo’.