David Schultz escribió:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009, Gábor Kövesdán wrote:
Hello all,
my name is Gábor Kövesdán. I'm a Hungarian student and I'll be working on
a BSD-licensed libiconv implementation for FreeBSD during this year's
Summer of Code program. It'll be based on NetBSD's Citrus iconv but there
is a lot to do besides porting. My mentor is Xin Li.
Nice. I'm sure many people will thank you for this.
I hope my work will be useful for the community. Btw, I suspected that
you might be interested in this and I wrote a mail personally to you
when I was looking for a mentor. Then I didn't resend it because
delphij@ volunteered to be my mentor. Have you ever got that mail? If
you find this an interesting project your comments, review, etc. are
still highly welcome.
One complaint I've heard about both our wide character
implementation and Citrus iconv is that the internal (wchar_t)
encoding depends on the current locale. (Basically it uses a
packed binary version of whatever the external representation is.)
The relevant standards allow this, but it can be a pain for
application and library writers. One thing to think about is
whether it would make more sense to standardize on something like
UCS-4 for the internal representation.
I haven't got to such details yet, so I didn't know this. But UCS-4
seems to be reasonable for me.
Cheers,
--
Gabor Kovesdan
FreeBSD Volunteer
EMAIL: [email protected] .:|:. [email protected]
WEB: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gabor .:|:. http://kovesdan.org
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