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Re: iconv on Solaris
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: iconv on Solaris
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 Sep 2001 10:24:52 -0600
- Cc: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>, "java at gcc dot gnu dot org" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <45980000.1001346320@warlock.codesourcery.com>
- Reply-To: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
Mark> That indicates that Solaris is probably doing the right thing,
Mark> and libjava/gcj/convert/natIconv.cc should be fixed to handle the BOM.
Mark> Or, just use UCS-2BE on Solaris.
I assume doing this omits the BOM. I imagine we could use
UCS-2BE/-2LE everywhere. If a platform doesn't have these it will
simply fail to create an iconv converter. I don't think that is very
bad. In this area we can simply require "reasonable" systems.
Desperate users can install GNU libiconv.
Tom