Joe Orton wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:25:24PM -0500, Albert Chin wrote:
Trying the native Solaris iconv_open() for a conversion from "646" to
"UTF-8" seems to work though. Is this the recommended iconv
implementation for this platform?
Yes, unless you have found it to be broken in some way, why would you
not use the native iconv() where available?
Bound to the clib, even if it's GNU, you get the clib GPL exception clause.
Definately the preferred flavor.
Bound to -liconv, you either have BSD iconv or GNU iconv. Either is fine,
just depends on your licensing preferences and issues.
As a fallback, httpd has a port of BSD iconv - apr_iconv, using some apr
portability management. This is actually the most portable / least desireable
as it's not as well maintained as the modern clib implementations, and would
never have added vendor codepages like you've discovered that Sun seems to still
be inventing ;-)
Bill
