Author: mladen.turk(a)jboss.com Date: 2007-12-12 03:28:42 -0500 (Wed, 12 Dec 2007) New Revision: 1182 Modified: trunk/srclib/apr-iconv/README Log: Update README Modified: trunk/srclib/apr-iconv/README =================================================================== --- trunk/srclib/apr-iconv/README 2007-12-12 08:26:14 UTC (rev 1181) +++ trunk/srclib/apr-iconv/README 2007-12-12 08:28:42 UTC (rev 1182) @@ -1,38 +1,6 @@ - ICONV - Charset Conversion Library. Version 1.0 - ----------------------------------------------- + Apache Portable Runtime Iconv Library + ------------------------------------- -This distribution contains the library (libiconv.a and .so) for -conversion between various charsets (character encoding schemes) -and the command line utility (iconv). - -Syntax of the library functions (iconv_open, iconv, iconv_close) -and the utility is described in the man pages. - -Features of the library: - - small size: the actual conversion methods are located - in dynamically loaded shared modules, representing - either a character encoding scheme (CES), or a coded - character set (CCS); - - open module API: adding new modules (both CESs and - CCSs) is easy. Although the API has not been documented, - it is rather simple to be figured out from the sources; - - BSD-style copyright; - - POSIX compliance of iconv_open, iconv and iconv_close - functions; - - support for aliases for charset names via UNIX symbolic - links; - - ISO/IEC 10646 conformance of the internal representation - of characters; conversion is always done in two steps: - (1) a sequence of zero or more bytes from input buffer - coded in the source charset is converted to exactly one - valid UCS-4 character and (2) the UCS-4 character is - converted to a sequence of zero or more bytes in - the target charset to the output buffer; - - standard sources of CCS tables: all C source files of - the tables have been generated by a Perl script from - the Unicode and RFC1345 charset mapping tables before - being included to the package. - - Konstantin Chuguev - <Konstantin.Chuguev(a)dante.org.uk&gt; - September 2000. +This version uses all provided modules as builtin +In general it is used only on windows platform where +there is no provided system iconv library