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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: iconv is needed by msword filter, but is not in FreeBSD
From:       "Bradley T. Hughes" <bhughes () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-07-30 14:59:17
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On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Will Andrews wrote:

> 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.

overly simple :/  simple enough that (if i had thought about it) a locate
iconv would have found

heh :)

> -- 
> Will Andrews <andrewsw@purdue.edu> <will@FreeBSD.org>
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> G++ e>++++ h! r- y?
> 

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