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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:54:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {libiconv/libiconv2/libcharset1}-1.14-2
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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.