Re: Iconv and old codepages

[Isaac <idunham@lavabit.com>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:39:59PM -0400, LM wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM, orc <orc@sibserver.ru> wrote:
> 
> > I also noticed alternative libs thread and corresponding wiki page.
> > Does someone know lightweight iconv replacement as a temporary measure
> > (other than libiconv for example)?
> >
> 
> Thought I had the Apache Portable Runtime project listed on the
> alternatives page.  Will update that.
> APR has a version of iconv.
> 
> BSD systems have their own implementations of iconv.  Haven't found a
> standalone version.  There may be some code in obase (listed on wiki).
> There's mention of a BSD licensed libiconv (
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/G%C3%A1borSoC2009 ) as part of Citrus (which was
> also supposed to have a gettext alternative).  The web page on Citrus is at
> http://citrus.bsdclub.org/ but I haven't found the source code for the
> project.  ICU ( http://site.icu-project.org/) provides uconv instead of
> iconv.  On Windows, they typically use GNU libiconv since iconv isn't part
> of the C runtime library.

AFAICT, Citrus is now developed in Net/FreeBSD (I forget which), 
since several years ago.

-100 on ICU; it's bloated to a degree that GNU has yet to match.
C++/needs libstdc++, 31.9 M for -dev, 22.4 M for libs, 29.7 M for docs.
(numbers from icu 4.8 on Ubuntu Lucid)

> 
> If anyone thinks these (or possibly some other alternatives) are useful, I
> can add the links for them to the wiki.  Please let me know if they any of
> them don't appear too bloated and would be worth adding.
> 
> Thanks.
> Laura
> http://www.distasis.com/cpp

HTH,
Isaac Dunham