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FreeBSD converters : iconv-extra

Additional charsets for the iconv library (those from the Unicode site)

 ICONV is the library for conversion between various charsets.

There are 68 charset modules in this port: those for all charsets
presented at the Unicode site but not included into the main
iconv package.

	Konstantin Chuguev 
	September 2000.
 

iconv-extra history

v. 1.8
date: 2005/02/19 04:04:57;  author: bland;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
danfe.net discontinued iconv-2.0 sources mirroring. Mirror them locally
and fix fetching.

Reported by:	kris

v. 1.7
date: 2004/06/08 02:18:07;  author: bland;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Take over maintanership.

- Konstantin explicitly resigned from BSD iconv few years ago.
- My e-mail pings about the case was never answered
  (last attempt 2/23/2004).
- There is a technical problem contacting him. [1]

PR:	67691 [1]

v. 1.6
date: 2004/06/06 23:24:19;  author: pav;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
- Chase 302 redirect in master sites

PR:		ports/67630
Submitted by:	Roman Neuhauser 

v. 1.5
date: 2003/02/21 11:08:36;  author: knu;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
De-pkg-comment.

v. 1.4
date: 2002/03/18 09:43:24;  author: sobomax;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
Iconv cleanup, stage 1a: remove `g' prefix from binaries, headers, libraries and
manpages installed by libiconv (aka GNU iconv) and add similar `b'-prefixes
into components installed by iconv (aka BSD iconv). The reason why we do this
is because unfortunately BSD iconv become abadonware (author doesn't maintain
it anymore), while number of ports that need functional iconv library grows
very fast, thus creating significant overhead due to patches needed to make
ports working with prefixed GNU iconv. For compatibility reasons create
symlinks in GNU iconv, so that all ports that expect GNU iconv to have `g'
prefix should work unmodified until all those `g'-hacks are wiped out.

Prompted by:			ache
Reviewed by (in principle):	freebsd-ports, freebsd-gnome

v. 1.3
date: 2000/11/29 11:46:37;  author: sobomax;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Update iconv to 2.0 and reflect shared library version bump.

PR:		23163, 23164, 23165
Submitted by:	maintainer

v. 1.2
date: 2000/09/24 21:48:02;  author: knu;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -2
Update iconv POSIX-compliant charset conversion library to 1.1.

Fixed problems:

  - All the modules are linked against libiconv.  iconv() now can be
    called from other shared libraries (it could only be called from
    executables in iconv-1.0);

  - Case insensitive recognition of charset names.  There was a bug in
    1.0: the first letter of a charset name was case sensitive;

  - Modified behaviour of iconv() used with (inbytesleft == NULL) or
    (*inbytesleft = 0): now iconv silently returns 0; in 1.0 it
    returned (size_t)(-1) and set errno=EINVAL. According to POSIX
    specification both ways are correct; the new behaviour is just
    less restrictive.

PR:		ports/21521, ports/21522, ports/21523
Submitted by:	Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk (MAINTAINER)
(Problems reported by:	knu)

v. 1.1
date: 2000/09/12 10:53:48;  author: sobomax;  state: Exp;
Add iconv-extra - an additional charset modules for the iconv-1.0 library
(from Unicode site).

PR:		21170
Submitted by:	Konstantin Chuguev 
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