What's difference between iconv and libiconv ports?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Mar 16 11:57:17 PST 2005


In the last episode (Mar 16), Stas Myasnikov said:
> Could anyone tell me what's difference between iconv and libiconv 
> ports?

iconv is a BSD-licensed charset conversion library (doesn't seem to
have been unpdated since 2000), libiconv is the GNU one that most
programs expect.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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