Re: repost: [PATCH] SMPP: data_coding (deliver_sm) votes?!
Andreas Fink <[email protected]>
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On Mittwoch, November 20, 2002, at 06:52 Uhr, Oded Arbel wrote: > > > > My main concern is what the developers thing of having another > hard-wired dependency to third-party software, iconv in this case. > > Yep, that would be a problem. though current implementation means that > if iconv isn't there, it will simply not encode- it won't break. > > standard libxml bails if iconv is not there. I did run into that > problem on earlier MacOS X systems (10.2 and newer is ok) > However you can get around this by doing ./configure --without-iconv > when you compile libxml. It probably has some replacement function. > > Now to the stupid question. What is iconv doing at all and why do we > need it? > Also if libxml has a replacement function for systems which dont have > it, can we simply rely on libxml for solving it for us? > > iconv is GNU's character conversion library and it supports every > imaginable encoding - unlike libXML who's interface only exposes a > very llimited set of character encodings, and its use is also far from > being trivial. I would go for a ./configure --with-iconv where the default is without. So people who need it can use it and others who dont, wont. Andreas Fink Global Networks, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Tel: +41-61-6666333 Fax: +41-61-6932729 Mobile: +41-79-2457333 Global Networks, Inc. Clarastrasse 3, 4058 Basel, Switzerland Web: http://www.global-networks.ch/ [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------ Member of the GSM Association