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From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of GNU libiconv-1.10 uploaded
Date:	Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:18:09 +0100
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This is a port of GNU Libiconv 1.10 to MSDOS/DJGPP.


  LIBICONV is a character set conversion library and provides
  an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which don't
  have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
  This library provides the requiered functionality to recode on-the-fly
  from UNIX charsets to MSDOS codepages. The mapping from language codes
  to DOS codepages is contained in the charset.alias file located in the
  /dev/env/DJDIR/lib subdir. Please inspect this file carefully and tell
  me if the selected DOS codepage is correct for your language.


  DJGPP specific changes.
  =======================

  -  People that port GNU distributions that use GNU gettext and libiconv,
     this means the distribution uses and provides its own charset.alias,
     to MSDOS/DJGPP should notice that the DJGPP port of libiconv does **NOT**
     provide nor will ever provide any code to deal with short file names. This
     implies that file name aliases like charset~1.ali or charset.al will not
     work at all.On WIN95/98 systems, the user **MUST** always turn off the
     generation of numeric tails for 8.3 aliases Windows creats for long file
     names **BEFORE** package installation or the package will not work in a
     dual DOS/WIN9X environment (it will work on WIN9X where the long file name
     (charset.alias) is available but it will not work on plain DOS where an
     alias like charset~1.ali will be visible instead of the 8.3 truncated
     short file name, this is charset.ali).

  -  There are no DJGPP specific changes to the sources at all. Starting with
     version 1.6, the official GNU distribution has build-in DJGPP support so
     this package should compile out-of-the-box. Unfortunatly this is not true
     for the configuration stage. Due to the frequently changes introduced by
     the different autoconf/automake versions used by the GNU package maintainer
     and due to the amount of names that are not 8.3 clean, the configuration
     out-of-the-box will almost certainly fail, so you will always have to wait
     until a djgpp port have been released. This means that the files *.sed,
     config.site and *.bat must be adjusted to the actual requirements of the
     GNU package.
     As usual, all DJGPP specific stuff is located in /djgpp dir.

  -  Please note that this port has no NLS support at all. I have not tested if
     this package will work with the DJGPP port of the gettext 0.10.35 library.
     I am working on a port of the latest gettext library but this still may
     take some more time.

  Please read the documentation to become familiar with this product.


  The binary and source packages can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and
  mirrors as (timestamp: 2006-03-21):

    Libiconv 1.10 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv110b.zip

    Libiconv 1.10 source:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/licv110s.zip


  For the convenience of the WinXP users the binaries has been produced
  a second time using the djdev204 beta library. This package is available
  at ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (timestamp 2006-03-21):

    Libiconv 1.10 binary and man format documentation:
    ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/licv110b.zip



  Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to
  comp.os.msdos.djgpp or <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>. Libiconv specific bugs
  must be reported to <bug-gnu-libiconv AT gnu DOT org>.


  Enjoy.

    Guerrero, Juan Manuel <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>

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