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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38dfb39 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +@node iconv_open +@section @code{iconv_open} +@findex iconv_open + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html} + +Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf + +Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{iconv} or @code{iconv_open}: +@itemize +@item +GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}. +@item +No converter from EUC-JP to UTF-8 is provided on some platforms: +HP-UX 11. +@end itemize + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open}: +@itemize +@item +This function recognizes only non-standard aliases for many encodings (not +the IANA registered encoding names) on many platforms: +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11. +@end itemize + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open-utf}: +@itemize +@item +This function does not support the encodings UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE, +UTF-32LE on many platforms: +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS, +when GNU libiconv is not installed. +@item +For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B, +although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This +occurs on some platforms: Solaris 11 2010-11. --- Gnulib provides a higher-level +facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with +this problem. +@item +The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent. +@end itemize |