svn commit: r341775 - in head: Mk/Uses converters/libiconv devel/gettext

[Gábor Kövesdán]

On 2014.01.29. 22:44, Andrey Chernov wrote:
> On 30.01.2014 0:24, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>> >   - Add two new arguments to USES=iconv so ports can indicate they use GNU
>> >     iconv extensions that the base system iconv doesn't support yet:
>> >     * wchar_t: port uses the special WCHAR_T character conversion.
>> >     * translit: port uses //TRANSLIT or //IGNORE conversion options.
>> >     Adding one or both of these arguments makes the port depend on
>> >     converters/libiconv for now.
>> >   - Allow installation of converters/libiconv on FreeBSD 10+.
> Delete-restore loop.
> What people smoke, replacing gnu iconv with system one without even
> implementing //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE first?
> At this stage looks more logical to implement them in the system iconv,
> rather than to return gnu one back.
>
In fact, system iconv uses //TRANSLIT by default. What it does not 
implement is the lack of //TRANSLIT. This is conformant to POSIX.

Gabor