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diff --git a/jni/iconv/libcharset/README b/jni/iconv/libcharset/README deleted file mode 100644 index 9f4cf7b..0000000 --- a/jni/iconv/libcharset/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ - LIBCHARSET - portable character set determination library - -This library provides a function which determines the character set / encoding -of text in the currently selected locale (the LC_CTYPE locale facet). - -It is useful for portable programs which need to process text in other -encodings and locales than the currently selected one. Possible uses: - - * Use of Unicode in POSIX compliant applications. - * Conversion of text between the current locale's encoding and UTF-8 (or - any other given encoding). - * Mail agents. - -In theory, this would be very simple: The Single Unix Specification (SUSV2) -provides the nl_langinfo function, in such a way that - - nl_langinfo (CODESET) - -returns the encoding name. But the nl_langinfo function still does not exist -on some systems, and on those where it exists it returns unstandardized -variations of the encoding names, like (on Solaris) "PCK" for "Shift_JIS". - -This library fixes these flaws and provides a function - - const char * locale_charset (void); - -It determines the current locale's character encoding, and canonicalizes it -into one of the canonical names listed in config.charset. The result must -not be freed; it is statically allocated. If the canonical name cannot be -determined, the result is a non-canonical name. - - -Installation: - -As usual for GNU packages: - - $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local - $ make - $ make install - - -This library is used in - GNU sh-utils, fileutils, textutils - GNU gettext - GNU clisp - - -To integrate this library into your package: -See file INTEGRATE. - - -Distribution: - The libcharset directory of - ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.8.tar.gz - -Homepage: - http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-libcharset.html - - -Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |