[illumos-Discuss] interesting projects available

[Joerg Schilling]

Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) wrote:

> Let me start with some questions:
>
> 1)	Is my first impression correct that we have the "complete" iconf
> 	code sources in libc?
>
> 2)	How could we get missing files from /usr/lib/iconv?
>
> 3)	Is there anybody who has more in depth knowledge on this topic?
>
> Writing an iconf program that does not need to implement the -l option
> may be relatively simple....
>
> > d) kbdcomp -- seems to share code with iconv?
>
> Good question, do you know the purpose of this program?

Let me add some remarks:

kbdcomp has no man page, so from a perspective of ISO-9000,
we do not need to implement it as it is officially non-existent.

I would be willing to write iconv(1) after we discussed the state of 
/usr/lib/iconv/* and found that there is a possible solution.

Jörg

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