>> Unfortunately, iconv is not equally supported on all platforms; which
>> is why a multi-platform project such as XFree86 needs to roll its own.
BH> Juliusz, you know that GNU libiconv is portable to any system that
BH> runs X applications.
Sorry, you're right.
BH> The real reason why iconv is not suitable for X is that iconv's
BH> purpose is to convert text, thus it supports text encodings
BH> (sometimes called CES). But X needs to support font encodings,
BH> such as Adobe-Symbol, JISX0208 and the like.
Yep. My wrong.
Juliusz
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