kern/76520: Add new kernel-side libiconv converter for mounting NTFS under UTF-8

[Andrey Chernov]

The following reply was made to PR kern/76520; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Andrey Chernov <ache at nagual.pp.ru>
To: David Yu <davidyu at ucsd.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/76520: Add new kernel-side libiconv converter for mounting NTFS under UTF-8
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 05:58:39 +0300

 On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 01:40:45AM +0000, David Yu wrote:
 > >Description:
 > The kernel-side libiconv currently used cannot convert unicode characters to UTF-8 which are longer than 2 bytes due to the lack of general encoding
 > converter. This patch adds a new converter for encoding UCS-2 and UTF-8, but can easily extend to cover all general encodings.
 
 There is no needs to adds something into kernel or we ends up in tons of 
 unneded encodings embedded, encoding modules must be made as klds. I 
 even remember I saw some code in the freebsd-i18n archive.
 
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