Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 09:13:41 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: gettext port (DXE prototype)
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On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> FYI - I build a copy of the libiconv iconv.exe using a DXE based run time 
> loader.  Prototype - proof of concept -not final (I don't know how to use 
> it) and I get iconv.exe being 66,560 bytes and the DXE being 854,404 bytes.
> iconv -f CP850 -t CP850 
> Seems to echo back what I type ...

One way to test this would be to build recode with this version of
libiconv, and then use it to recode some text to a different charset
and back.  The result should be identical to the original file.  (I
can post the actual command line, if you want.)