RE: ICONV, UTF-8, and language fun on OpenVMS - 0.62

> From: Craig Berry [mailto:craigberry@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: October 28, 2003 4:28 PM
>
> And before 
> anyone asks, yes, it is quite silly to have a perfectly good 
> iconv implementation but no UTF-8 translations available 
> without an additional installation.  

It's also quite silly that we *require* UTF-8 even if the client application
doesn't!  

I use FreeTDS relying solely on its built-in libiconv replacement.  Does
that not work in VMS, or do you have more demanding i18n requirements?  

> I have 0.62-to-be working pretty well 
> using the HP-supplied UTF-8 translator mentioned above with 
> the HP-supplied iconv.  But I also have plans to have 
> [.vms]configure.com detect whether the UTF-8 translators are 
> present and use the FreeTDS replacement iconv if not.

Cool.  :-)

--jkl
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