SoC 2009: BSD-licensed libiconv in base system

[Alexander Churanov]

Gabor, Joerg,

I am currently working on UTF-8 support in syscons and highly
interested in making FreeBSD using UTF-8 out of box.

There is my $0.02:

1) Why discuss UCS-4 at all? UTF-32 is alreay in place. SImple,
standardized, fixed-width and stateless.
2) I'm against using wchar_t internally, because C language standard
does not require that a wchar_t variable can hold an UTF-32 code
point.
3) Please, give an example of character that does not fit into UCS-4.
I'll check whether it fits into UTF-32. I expect that any character
fits into a single UTF-32 code point.

Sincerely,
Alexander Churanov