Subject: Re: iconv question
sterwill@abisource.com
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 12:56:20 CST
Henrik Berg wrote:
> > I see that iconv is a portable implementation of a text encoding converter.
> > On Mac OS, shouldn't we attempt to write the iconv API on top of Apple's
> > Text Encoding Converter OS Services, which support Unicode among others?
>
> I think that there should be some UT_xxx() functions that deals with conversions. This could then be implemented with iconv (on glibc 2.1) or libiconv or "Apple's Text Encoding Converter OS Services" or WinNT Unicode support.
This sounds like an excellent solution, and it's what the UT functions
are there for. :) Feel free to implement a ut_iconv() (or whichever
name is appropriate for the job) as needed, if porting libiconv isn't
feasable (or isn't desired) for some platforms.
-- Shaw Terwilliger
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