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* Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2
       [not found] <announce.20111016182240.039CE4833D9@frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa>
@ 2011-10-16 23:59 ` Christopher Faylor
  2011-10-17  1:41   ` Charles Wilson
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 2011-10-16 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:20:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on
>systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert
>from/to Unicode.

Hey, I thought we just had a recent release of iconv.  Do we really need
another one so soon??????????????????????

cgf

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* Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2
  2011-10-16 23:59 ` [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2 Christopher Faylor
@ 2011-10-17  1:41   ` Charles Wilson
  2011-10-17 12:55     ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Charles Wilson @ 2011-10-17  1:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On 10/16/2011 7:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:20:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on
>> systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert
>> from/to Unicode.
>
> Hey, I thought we just had a recent release of iconv.  Do we really need
> another one so soon??????????????????????

I know you're just being facetious, but actually there truly was no 
*pressing* need for a libiconv update; we really only needed the 
gettext/libintl one.  However, (a) I usually release both libiconv and 
gettext together, since they have a circular dependency, and (b) both 
cygiconv-2.dll and cygcharset-1.dll (from libiconv) shared the same 
"slow no-op relocation even when --disable-relocation" problem that 
cygintl-8.dll had.  I figured why not fix both...

What I'm dreading is one of the following two scenarios: and I fear that 
if #1 doesn't happen, the odds of #2 occurring approach 98%...

#1) I didn't fully fix the original "cygwin started speaking german" 
problem. I *think* I did, and *my* tests operated as expected, but...

#2) Why doesn't cygwin respect my choice of language from Windows 
Regional Settings?  It used to do that, just last WEEK!  You finally, 
after YEARS, fixed cygwin's aberrant behavior -- and then BROKE it again 
with this latest "update". You guys suck!

Yeah, well, WJM.

--
Chuck

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* Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2
  2011-10-17  1:41   ` Charles Wilson
@ 2011-10-17 12:55     ` Christopher Faylor
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christopher Faylor @ 2011-10-17 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cygwin-talk

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 09:40:39PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 10/16/2011 7:59 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:20:31PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>> The GNU libiconv package provides an iconv() implementation, for use on
>>> systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert
>>> from/to Unicode.
>>
>> Hey, I thought we just had a recent release of iconv.  Do we really need
>> another one so soon??????????????????????
>
>I know you're just being facetious, but actually there truly was no 
>*pressing* need for a libiconv update; we really only needed the 
>gettext/libintl one.

I stand inexplicably corrected.

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