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Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:53:56 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libiconv-1.11-1, libiconv2-1.11-1, libcharset1-1.11-1
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The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on
systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert
from/to Unicode.

These should be upgraded together with the gettext packages.

	libiconv-1.11-1
	libiconv2-1.11-1
	libcharset1-1.11-1

	gettext-0.15-1
	gettext-devel-0.15-1
	libintl8-0.15-1 (*)
	libgettextpo0-0.15-1
	libasprintf0-0.15-1 (**)

(*) new library package -- the DLL ver of libintl was bumped a few times 
by the upstream maintainers during 0.15 development .  You can (and 
should) have both libintl3-0.14.5-1 and libintl8-0.15-1 installed.

(**) New library. libasprintf0
This package makes the C formatted output routines (fprintf et al.) 
usable in C++ programs, for use with the <string> strings and the 
<iostream> streams. See /usr/share/doc/libasprintf/autosprintf.html.


CHANGES:

* Routine update to 1.11 upstream release
* Now depends on libintl8, not libintl3
* cygwin (and other WOE32) shared library support now provided via
   a new mechanism, detailed at this thread [1] and this website [2].
   Note that this is (or should be) completely transparent to end users
   and to developers/maintainers of projects which use libiconv.
* Switch to cygport build framework. Requires patched cygport
      http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00743.html
* Detailed changes listed below.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2006-09/msg00000.html
[2] http://www.haible.de/bruno/woe32dll.html

--
Chuck

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To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

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====================================================================
New in 1.11:
* The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst,
   --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters
   that cannot be converted.
* The iconv program now understands long options:
     long option    equivalent to
     --from-code    -f
     --to-code      -t
     --list         -l
     --silent       -s
* The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has
   changed to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is
   no longer an alias of GBK.
* Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters.
* Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area
   characters.
* Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters.
* Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is
   renamed to BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters
   BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an
   alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004.
* Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter.
* Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >=
   4.0).

New in 1.10:
* Added ISO-8859-11 converter.
* Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter.
* Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings.
* Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through
   --enable-extra-encodings.
* Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign.
* The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to
   preloadable_libiconv.so.
* Portability to mingw.


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