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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: iconv is needed by msword filter, but is not in FreeBSD
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-07-31 8:03:08
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On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 09:42:14PM -0400, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> 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.

Do you have glibc-devel installed ? Mine comes with iconv.h
glibc-devel-2.1.1-6
Ah, maybe it's only a 2.1 thing.

Disabling the filter on glibc<2.1 is not really an option.... :(

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