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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: iconv is needed by msword filter, but is not in FreeBSD
From:       Navindra Umanee <navindra () cs ! mcgill ! ca>
Date:       2000-07-31 1:42:14
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Shaheed Haque <shaheedhaque@hotmail.com> 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?

Hmmm, it is?  It's not on my Linux box.  I'm using glibc 2.0.7.  I
just had to compile KOffice without the OLE filters.

-N.

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