SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

[Gabor Kovesdan]

David Schultz escribió:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> my name is Gábor Kövesdán. I'm a Hungarian student and I'll be working on
>> a BSD-licensed libiconv implementation for FreeBSD during this year's
>> Summer of Code program. It'll be based on NetBSD's Citrus iconv but there
>> is a lot to do besides porting. My mentor is Xin Li.
>>     
>
> Nice. I'm sure many people will thank you for this.
>   
I hope my work will be useful for the community. Btw, I suspected that 
you might be interested in this and I wrote a mail personally to you 
when I was looking for a mentor. Then I didn't resend it because 
delphij@ volunteered to be my mentor. Have you ever got that mail? If 
you find this an interesting project your comments, review, etc. are 
still highly welcome.
> One complaint I've heard about both our wide character
> implementation and Citrus iconv is that the internal (wchar_t)
> encoding depends on the current locale. (Basically it uses a
> packed binary version of whatever the external representation is.)
> The relevant standards allow this, but it can be a pain for
> application and library writers. One thing to think about is
> whether it would make more sense to standardize on something like
> UCS-4 for the internal representation.
>   
I haven't got to such details yet, so I didn't know this. But UCS-4 
seems to be reasonable for me.

Cheers,

-- 
Gabor Kovesdan
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