[vlc-devel] Missing ISO6937 support in some OSes

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 09:12:23 Marian Ďurkovič, vous avez écrit :
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:41:15 +0200, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:37:03 +0200, "Marian Ďurkovič" <md at bts.sk> wrote:
> > > It's far easier to have inhouse function for this, which will surely
> > > work for all setups and wouldn't eventually require maintenance with
> > > every new libiconv version. I already sent working code for this.
> >
> > With that logic, we'll reimplement ALL character sets we use iconv for.
> > Depending on the target, you can really get _anything_. Especially on
> > embedded devices, iconv is often limited if not a plain dumb stub.
> 
> ISO6937 is way different than other common 8bit charsets (special composing
> sequences).

Yeah. That's precisely why we should not have our own duplicated 
implementation in the VLC tree, when we could push it to iconv.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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