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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2007-03-31 21:01:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2007-03-31 21:01:29 +0000 |
| commit | 2ec42242c58ea05c1d31ff199d8436420049e189 (patch) | |
| tree | 29c604db7ad396e71821a1bd2f0580632ae1325f /lib/striconveh.h | |
| parent | 455a36f0f1ea2fe0ab925bfe74f6e0cf7c6292f5 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-2ec42242c58ea05c1d31ff199d8436420049e189.tar.gz | |
Do an indirect conversion if iconv_open does not support a direct conversion.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/striconveh.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/striconveh.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/striconveh.h b/lib/striconveh.h index 1e833a053c..97a377a653 100644 --- a/lib/striconveh.h +++ b/lib/striconveh.h @@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ enum iconv_ilseq_handler /* Convert an entire string from one encoding to another, using iconv. The original string is at [SRC,...,SRC+SRCLEN-1]. - The conversion descriptor from FROMCODE to TOCODE is passed as CD. + CD is the conversion descriptor from FROMCODE to TOCODE, or (iconv_t)(-1) if + the system does not support a direct conversion from FROMCODE to TOCODE. CD1 is the conversion descriptor from FROM_CODESET to UTF-8 (or (iconv_t)(-1) if FROM_CODESET is UTF-8). CD2 is the conversion descriptor from UTF-8 to TO_CODESET (or (iconv_t)(-1) @@ -67,9 +68,10 @@ extern int /* Convert an entire string from one encoding to another, using iconv. The original string is the NUL-terminated string starting at SRC. - The conversion descriptor is passed as CD. Both the "from" and the "to" - encoding must use a single NUL byte at the end of the string (i.e. not - UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16, UTF-32). + CD is the conversion descriptor from FROMCODE to TOCODE, or (iconv_t)(-1) if + the system does not support a direct conversion from FROMCODE to TOCODE. + Both the "from" and the "to" encoding must use a single NUL byte at the end + of the string (i.e. not UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16, UTF-32). CD1 is the conversion descriptor from FROM_CODESET to UTF-8 (or (iconv_t)(-1) if FROM_CODESET is UTF-8). CD2 is the conversion descriptor from UTF-8 to TO_CODESET (or (iconv_t)(-1) |