libbconv

[NGie Cooper]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 1/28/15 11:03 PM, Dirk Engling wrote:
>>
>> On 28.01.15 16:02, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>
>>> Please try to reinstall the converters/libiconv port, which is what your
>>> other ports are looking for.
>>
>> Thank you, sir :)
>
>
> of course you couId, I believe, just use libc which now contains a lot of
> iconv stuff..
> at least it appears that way to me..

iconv in libc doesn't have full feature parity with GNU libiconv. We
ran into problems with type widths at $work where some of our code was
misbehaving because iconv wasn't functioning like GNU libiconv.