28 Nov
2024
28 Nov
'24
6:57 a.m.
At Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:07:56 +0000, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Canonical Historic Approach to iconv(1)
My mistake, the HP-UX reference was for iconv(3), not iconv(1). The
source is the current issue of POSIX, Issue 8 (2024). Indeed iconv(1)
is in the SVR4 manuals but only supporting system-provided charmaps.
Additionally, while in the SVR4 manuals, I didn't spot it on first
pass through SVID Issue 3 which is the SVR4-era issue.
It is documented in the System V Interface Definition, Fourth Edition,
Volume 2, Pages 211,212.
There's no mention of Unicode or ISO 10646 of course -- they're too new,
at least to be in any system standards by that time! After all SVID-4
was only getting caught up with POSIX 1003.1-1990. UTF-8 didn't even
show up more widely until early 1993, and wasn't in force in the IETF
until 1998 so you can't really expect SVID-4 to use it (even in 1995)
for a 1990-based standard.
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