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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:17:48 -0800
From:      NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Dirk Engling <erdgeist@erdgeist.org>, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
Subject:   Re: libbconv
Message-ID:  <CAGHfRMCoX_e=QFtUDwMOBs4KoPeZ%2BTuh-MChBZHOvOUGKJ6jfg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 1/28/15 11:03 PM, Dirk Engling wrote:
>>
>> On 28.01.15 16:02, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>
>>> Please try to reinstall the converters/libiconv port, which is what your
>>> other ports are looking for.
>>
>> Thank you, sir :)
>
>
> of course you couId, I believe, just use libc which now contains a lot of
> iconv stuff..
> at least it appears that way to me..

iconv in libc doesn't have full feature parity with GNU libiconv. We
ran into problems with type widths at $work where some of our code was
misbehaving because iconv wasn't functioning like GNU libiconv.



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