Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>>> "Abdelrazak" == Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Abdelrazak> I really think we should get rid of iconv. >> >> We are going to need iconv anyway to convert characters to iso-8859-x >> and friends for latex output. > > I mean: We should get rid of iconv for all unicode conversion purpose. > > The code around the iconv API is bigger than the conversion code itself. > > Abdel. > >
Yes, it's bigger slower and you still do not understand what's going on. Using at some places our own implemented/C&P unicode conversion has the advantage, that it is smaller, faster, and you see how it works. Here the C code from unicode.org http://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/ConvertUTF.c http://www.unicode.org/Public/PROGRAMS/CVTUTF/ConvertUTF.h -- Peter Kümmel
