Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:19:14 +0200 From: Konrad Jankowski <lichave@gmail.com> To: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Xin LI <d@delphij.net>, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, i18n@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFT] BSDL iconv in base system Message-ID: <AANLkTilsexPHqz_11UXaclDyrvdPBhFos7gJ8plC-XLc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20100615170158.GA2131@tops> References: <4C16C5B5.1070308@FreeBSD.org> <20100615170158.GA2131@tops>
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On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> wrote: > On (15/06/2010 02:13), Gabor Kovesdan wrote: >> Hello Folks, >> >> during the last summer, Google generously founded my Summer of Code >> project, which was providing a BSD-licensed iconv implementation for >> FreeBSD. I'm proud to announce that the work has been completed and a >> patch is available to add it to the base system. >> >> The results of this work are: >> - The Citrus implementation has been ported from NetBSD. >> - Some utilities have been added. There is a conversion table generator, >> which can compare conversion tables to reference data generated by GNU >> libiconv. This helps ensuring conversion compatibility. >> - UTF-16 surrogate support and some endianness issues have been fixed. >> - The rather chaotic Makefiles to build metadata have been refactored >> and cleaned up, now it is easy to read and it is also easier to add >> support for new encodings. >> - A bunch of new encodings and encoding aliases have been added. >> - Support for 1->2, 1->3 and 1->4 mappings, which is needed for >> transliterating with flying accents as GNU does, like "u. >> - Lots of warnings have been fixed, the major part of the code is now >> WARNS=6 clean. >> - New section 1 and section 5 manual pages have been added. >> - Some GNU-specific calls have been implemented: iconvlist(), >> iconvctl(), iconv_canonicalize(), iconv_open_into() >> - Support for GNU's //IGNORE suffix has been added. >> - The "-" argument for stdin is now recognized in iconv(1) as per POSIX. >> - The Big5 conversion module has been fixed. >> - The iconv.h header files is supposed to be compatible with the GNU >> version, i.e. sources should build with base iconv.h and GNU libiconv. >> I've just did a very quick test and it seems ports can safely link to >> GNU libiconv, there's no conflict. >> - Various cleanups and style(9) fixes. >> - A bachelor thesis written in Hungarian language: >> http://www.kovesdan.org/files/bsc_iconv.pdf >> >> The rather big patch (42,5M) is available here: >> http://www.kovesdan.org/patches/iconv_base_integrate.diff >> >> Any comments, suggestions or bugreports are very welcome. > > Awesome! Thanks for working on it. > > Are there any plans to resurrect/finish multibyte collation support > GSoC'2008 project: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/KonradJankowski/Collation Hi. The project is not dead. I've resumed actively working on it. Expect some patches/commits soon. -- Konrad
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