| From: | Patrick Welche <prlw1(at)newn(dot)cam(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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| To: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: iconv? |
| Date: | 2001-07-13 16:25:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20010713172508.A7317@quartz.newn.cam.ac.uk |
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:04:25PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> > Has it ever been considered to (optionally) use the iconv interface for
> > character set conversion instead of rolling our own? It seems to be a lot
> > more flexible, has pluggable conversion modules (depending on the
> > implementation), supports more character sets. It seems to be available
> > on quite a few systems, too.
>
> I have not checked iconv seriously since it's not very portable among
> our supported platforms.
Just FYI, in the mutt readme:
- Mutt needs an implementation of the iconv API for character set
conversions. A free one can be found under the following URL:
http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
Cheers,
Patrick
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