ports/80705: [PATCH] converters/libiconv: includes a patch for Big5

[Rong-En Fan]

The following reply was made to PR ports/80705; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rong-En Fan <rafan at infor.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/80705: [PATCH] converters/libiconv: includes a patch for Big5
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:33:03 +0800

 The patch is originally came from Kuang-che Wu at
 http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~r92030/project/big5/ 
 I'll contact him and see how to solve this.
 
 Thanks,
 rafan.
 
 On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 12:05:15PM +0200, Bruno Haible wrote:
 > The libiconv-big5-2003.patch.gz has the following problems:
 >   - It reuses the name "BIG5" to denote something different than classical
 >     BIG5, thus creating interoperability problems. This is a VERY BAD idea.
 >   - The patch doesn't pass the round-trip test (many private area mappings
 >     missing from the Big5-2003 -> Unicode direction).
 >   - It breaks the CP950 encoding.
 >   - It is based on a mapping table that has some problematic mappings.
 >     (12 known problems).
 > 
 > Bruno
 >