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33 lines
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1. newlib/iconv/ccs/iconv_mktbl Perl script should be upgraded. Currently
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this script can only generate Big Endian (Network Byte Order) .cct files.
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This decreases conversion performance on little endian systems since iconv
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library needs to swap all bytes that it reads from loaded CCS table.
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Something such -LE and -BE options should be added to 'iconv_mktbl' script.
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Also, we can keep two .cct file versions - BE and LE (e.g., koi8_r-le.cct
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and koi8_r-be.cct) and iconv library will automatically choose needed cct.
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Or we can keep both LE and BE data in one .cct file.
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2. http://www.dante.net/staff/konstantin/FreeBSD/iconv/ contains additional
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CES and CCS converters (see iconv-extra-2.0.tar.gz and
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iconv-rfc1345-2.0.tar.gz). These extra converters should be added too.
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3. Documentation should be created. It should contain:
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1) How to compile iconv (configure script options description)
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2) How to add new converter
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3) Work principles.
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It would be nice if iconv architecture will be described too.
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4. CCS files loading (iconv/lib/loaddata.c). Now file is loaded into memory
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for every iconv descriptor. For example, if one use two iconv descriptors
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for UTF8->KOI8-R and UTF-16->KOI8-R conversions, koi8_r.cct file will
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be loaded twice. To save memory, we should load each .cct only once
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(if possible).
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Artem B. Bityuckiy,
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SoftMine Corporation,
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<abitytsky@softminecorp.com>,
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<dedekind@mail.ru>,
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Jan, 2004.
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