From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3464 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Isaac Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Iconv and old codepages Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:37:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20130627003711.GA1372@newbook> References: <20130627021539.76b69eea@sibserver.ru> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372293447 2564 80.91.229.3 (27 Jun 2013 00:37:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 00:37:27 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3468-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Thu Jun 27 02:37:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Us0DJ-0002rR-FN for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:37:29 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 26232 invoked by uid 550); 27 Jun 2013 00:37:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 26222 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2013 00:37:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=W7S8pvoNTxe2pPbMlImczzfbts/IMpEu6MjutG2HfHyUYjzKJs+Yf6Jq8oft9PT0pSoogJe0DFWqdIzsITtiqHJGoyKFnKYiExJOoXJqjJrikSbYrPuX/dqnnSCbTpzYTZsHnBJ4JnhtqtPVGi6WsM1QjBpkeKfUNTJz7FDV3Bs=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3464 Archived-At: On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:39:59PM -0400, LM wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM, orc 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