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Subject:    RE: iconv is needed by msword filter, but is not in FreeBSD
From:       "R&M Leblanc" <tms () escape ! ca>
Date:       2000-07-30 1:23:01
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From: koffice-admin@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
[mailto:koffice-admin@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de]On Behalf Of
Shaheed Haque
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 5:44 PM
To: wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com; bhughes@trolltech.com
Cc: koffice@max.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: iconv is needed by msword filter, but is not in FreeBSD


Werner, Bradley,

I'm not sure what the solution to the lack of iconv on FreeBSD is. AFAICS,
iconv is the "standard" Unix 9x way to convert between MS codepages and
unicode. It seems to be on all the main OSs - it is in glibc - is it really
missing on FreeBSD? If so, how do applications on FreeBSD handle this
problem?

I've just looked at QTextCodec, but it seems to be more a framework which
one could use to replace iconv, rather than something which is directly
usable. There are somebuilt-in codes, but the MS codepages are not included
AFAICS...I'm cc'ing the list in case someone else has a better idea.

Thanks, Shaheed

>From: Werner Trobin <wtrobin@mandrakesoft.com>
>To: Shaheed Haque <shaheedhaque@hotmail.com>
>Subject: iconv and FreeBSD
>Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:11:08 +0200
>
>Hi!
>
>Last time Bradley added a #ifdef __linux__, now he
>added #ifndef __FreeBSD__ around the iconv.h include.
>(i.e. this shouldn't break Solaris)
>
>The reason for that is - there is no iconv.h on
>FreeBSD. As I don't know why you need this header
>(I never heared of iconv before) I just ask you if
>you think you could find a solution to make it work
>on FreeBDS too. (maybe QTextCodec & Co ?)
>
>Werner, clueless about that stuff :)

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