perl-unicode

Re: perl5.6+ native UTF8 to/from external encodings

2000-10-30 09:31:29
Nick Ing-Simmons writes:

The improved iconv that will come soon with glibc 2.2 under Linux are
also separately available in Bruno Haible's libiconv:

 http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html

Interesting - what is the license on that version?

It is under LGPL. When installed as a shared library (this is how it's
installed by default) it doesn't have copyright restrictions on
programs that use it.

Note the implementations in glibc 2.2 and in libiconv are different,
but the set of supported encodings is very much the same. And both
enjoy the same test suite.

A glance at the web page does not show any EBCDIC but I may have missed
them under other names.

If you see a need for it you can add EBCDIC encodings to libiconv.

Bruno