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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: iconv is needed by msword filter, but is not in FreeBSD
From:       Will Andrews <andrews () technologist ! com>
Date:       2000-07-30 1:36:50
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 12:44:01AM +0100, Shaheed Haque wrote:
> 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?

From what I can tell, it is provided as part of the converters/iconv
port.  So anyone who needs KOffice can add the iconv package to their
list of dependencies for installing koffice on FreeBSD.

Simple enough.

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