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- LIBCHARSET - portable character set determination library
-
-This library provides a function which determines the character set / encoding
-of text in the currently selected locale (the LC_CTYPE locale facet).
-
-It is useful for portable programs which need to process text in other
-encodings and locales than the currently selected one. Possible uses:
-
- * Use of Unicode in POSIX compliant applications.
- * Conversion of text between the current locale's encoding and UTF-8 (or
- any other given encoding).
- * Mail agents.
-
-In theory, this would be very simple: The Single Unix Specification (SUSV2)
-provides the nl_langinfo function, in such a way that
-
- nl_langinfo (CODESET)
-
-returns the encoding name. But the nl_langinfo function still does not exist
-on some systems, and on those where it exists it returns unstandardized
-variations of the encoding names, like (on Solaris) "PCK" for "Shift_JIS".
-
-This library fixes these flaws and provides a function
-
- const char * locale_charset (void);
-
-It determines the current locale's character encoding, and canonicalizes it
-into one of the canonical names listed in config.charset. The result must
-not be freed; it is statically allocated. If the canonical name cannot be
-determined, the result is a non-canonical name.
-
-
-Installation:
-
-As usual for GNU packages:
-
- $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
- $ make
- $ make install
-
-
-This library is used in
- GNU sh-utils, fileutils, textutils
- GNU gettext
- GNU clisp
-
-
-To integrate this library into your package:
-See file INTEGRATE.
-
-
-Distribution:
- The libcharset directory of
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz
-
-Homepage:
- http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-libcharset.html
-
-
-Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
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