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. -- Gabor Kovesdan FreeBSD Volunteer EMAIL:gabor_at_FreeBSD.org .:|:.gabor_at_kovesdan.org WEB:http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:.http://kovesdan.orgReceived on Mon Jun 14 2010 - 22:13:48 UTC
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