On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor_at_freebsd.org> 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 Over 40 Megabytes?! WOW. Thank you for this incredible amount of work, I know the FreeBSD community will benefit greatly from it. I think this effort deserves some hardcore testing, so now to the FreeBSD community -- I know it will get the attention it deserves :) -BrandonReceived on Mon Jun 14 2010 - 22:25:09 UTC
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