Jungshik Shin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > However, I had to tell him that there's another hurdle to overcome. > My patch hard-coded 'UTF-16LE' as the codeset name for 'UTF-16 Little > Endian', but it's not very portable. There should be a way to detect > the codeset name to use with iconv(3) on a given platform for UTF-16LE. > Is there any autoconf macro written for this?
> An alternative is to just make it user-configurable at run-time. > This is easier for programmers, but not so user-friendly... Because of the way some people use libiconv with LD_PRELOAD, it makes sense to decide at run time rather than build time. However, you probably don't need to bother the typical user with configuration stuff; you can try various possible names and run tests at run time. Edmund -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
