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Message-ID: <20130627003711.GA1372@newbook>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 17:37:11 -0700
From: Isaac <idunham@...abit.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Iconv and old codepages
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 02:39:59PM -0400, LM wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:15 PM, orc <orc@...server.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
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