svn commit: r189765 - in head: . lib/libc lib/libc/nls

Sean C. Farley scf at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 13 11:36:09 PDT 2009


On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, David Schultz wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> Now, you only need to revive the BSD-licensed libiconv[1].  :)
> [...]
>>   1. http://people.freebsd.org/~bland/iconv-2.1.tar.gz
>
> I asked a few weeks ago on standards@ why we weren't using Citrus
> iconv, which is what NetBSD uses, and seems to be in a somewhat
> better state than this. It also provides various wide character
> conversion routines that overlap with what tjr@ has already done
> in FreeBSD, so we'd have to sort that out. And we'd have to sort
> out a gazillion ports that want -liconv.

I have not explored either.  The Citrus version appears to have more 
functionality, however, the Citrus website is ambiguous about the 
license.

Note to self:  register with standards@; arch@ is not enough.  :)

Sean
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