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diff --git a/gnuwin32/contrib/libiconv/1.9.2/libiconv-1.9.2-src/README b/gnuwin32/contrib/libiconv/1.9.2/libiconv-1.9.2-src/README deleted file mode 100644 index e07ba0f0..00000000 --- a/gnuwin32/contrib/libiconv/1.9.2/libiconv-1.9.2-src/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,149 +0,0 @@ - GNU LIBICONV - character set conversion library - -This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which -don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. - -It provides support for the encodings: - - European languages - ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16}, - KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, - CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866}, - Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania}, - Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish}, - Macintosh - Semitic languages - ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic} - Japanese - EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1 - Chinese - EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5-HKSCS, - ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT - Korean - EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB - Armenian - ARMSCII-8 - Georgian - Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS - Tajik - KOI8-T - Thai - TIS-620, CP874, MacThai - Laotian - MuleLao-1, CP1133 - Vietnamese - VISCII, TCVN, CP1258 - Platform specifics - HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP - Full Unicode - UTF-8 - UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE - UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE - UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE - UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE - UTF-7 - C99, JAVA - Full Unicode, in terms of `uint16_t' or `uint32_t' - (with machine dependent endianness and alignment) - UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL - Locale dependent, in terms of `char' or `wchar_t' - (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with OS and - locale dependent semantics) - char, wchar_t - The empty encoding name "" is equivalent to "char": it denotes the - locale dependent character encoding. - -When configured with the option --enable-extra-encodings, it also provides -support for a few extra encodings: - - European languages - CP{437,737,775,852,853,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125} - Semitic languages - CP864 - Japanese - EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3 - Turkmen - TDS565 - Platform specifics - RISCOS-LATIN1 - -It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode -conversion. - -It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character -cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated -through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is -activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name. - -libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character -encodings, but that support lacks from your system. - -Installation: - -As usual for GNU packages: - - $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local - $ make - $ make install - -After installing GNU libiconv for the first time, it is recommended to -recompile and reinstall GNU gettext, so that it can take advantage of -libiconv. - -On systems other than GNU/Linux, the iconv program will be internationalized -only if GNU gettext has been built and installed before GNU libiconv. This -means that the first time GNU libiconv is installed, we have a circular -dependency between the GNU libiconv and GNU gettext packages, which can be -resolved by building and installing either - - first libiconv, then gettext, then libiconv again, -or (on systems supporting shared libraries, excluding AIX) - - first gettext, then libiconv, then gettext again. -Recall that before building a package for the second time, you need to erase -the traces of the first build by running "make distclean". - -This library can be built and installed in two variants: - - - The library mode. This works on all systems, and uses a library - `libiconv.so' and a header file `<iconv.h>'. (Both are installed - through "make install".) - - To use it, simply #include <iconv.h> and use the functions. - - To use it in an autoconfiguring package: - - If you don't use automake, append m4/iconv.m4 to your aclocal.m4 - file. - - If you do use automake, add m4/iconv.m4 to your m4 macro repository. - - Add to the link command line of libraries and executables that use - the functions the placeholder @LIBICONV@ (or, if using libtool for - the link, @LTLIBICONV@). If you use automake, the right place for - these additions are the *_LDADD variables. - Note that 'iconv.m4' is also part of the GNU gettext package, which - installs it in /usr/local/share/aclocal/iconv.m4. - - - The libc plug/override mode. This works on GNU/Linux, Solaris and OSF/1 - systems only. It is a way to get good iconv support without having - glibc-2.1. - It installs a library `libiconv_plug.so'. This library can be used with - LD_PRELOAD, to override the iconv* functions present in the C library. - - On GNU/Linux and Solaris: - $ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so - - On OSF/1: - $ export _RLD_LIST=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so:DEFAULT - - A program's source need not be modified, the program need not even be - recompiled. Just set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, that's it! - - -Distribution: - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.9.2.tar.gz - -Homepage: - http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ - -Bug reports to: - <bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org> - - -Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |