Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:01:58 +0300 From: Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com> To: Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Xin LI <d@delphij.net>, i18n@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFT] BSDL iconv in base system Message-ID: <20100615170158.GA2131@tops> In-Reply-To: <4C16C5B5.1070308@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C16C5B5.1070308@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 And are you aware of any plans on adding utf8-aware regex? I think NetBSD has already imported one: http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/efficient_wide_character_regular_expressions Thanks, Gleb. > -- > Gabor Kovesdan > FreeBSD Volunteer > > EMAIL:gabor@FreeBSD.org .:|:.gabor@kovesdan.org > WEB:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:.http://kovesdan.org > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20100615170158.GA2131>