>> Is there an alternative out there to the GNU iconv implementation? >> It's not exactly the most portable piece of code to non-linux hosts. >> (E.g. I've been fighting with it on MacOS recently.) > >Some other systems, e.g. Solaris, come with their own iconv. It's often >better to use these instead of GNUĂ‚Â libiconv in part because they are >more likely to make sense of whatever nl_langinfo(CODESET) outputs (this >is quite variable in the case of plain ASCII). I'm not sure whether GNU >libiconv is the same thing as the glibc one. I've also got no idea about >what Mac OS comes with.
On my MacOS X system ... % grep LIBICONV_VERSION /usr/include/iconv.h #define _LIBICONV_VERSION 0x010B /* version number: (major<<8) + minor */ So at least on newer MacOS X systems, no porting of iconv is required. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
