On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
Fair enough ... but iconv() is part of POSIX, so assuming that it's available is reasonable (if you don't have iconv(), we basically give up in terms of handling different character sets).
Sadly, iconv() in practice is a nightmare. The versions shipped with base OS systems vs. how applications expect to see the gnu-ized version(s) makes it impossible to keep a clean build environment in the face of the two. (I just spent two days fighting this battle porting code to FreeBSD.) Sucking in a POSIX-compliant iconv lets us be consistent everywhere. And if ours is tightly POSIX compliant, we are no more wrong than anyone else. --lyndon
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