libiconv

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: libiconv
started by: newby

Posted by newby on Aug. 24 2006,11:09

Just found libiconv on the web < http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/ > and thought it might be useful in DSL or DSL-NOT.

It's a converter between language character sets - seems quite complete and might make the experience of the web easier for the user.

Posted by crusadingknight on Aug. 29 2006,15:04

That's an application-level runtime library. I have no idea how that makes experience of the web easier for the user (the only thing I've ever used it for is converting between isolat1 and UTF-8.)

Posted by newby on Aug. 29 2006,16:33

Quote (crusadingknight @ Aug. 29 2006,11:04)

That's an application-level runtime library.

Ah, I just stumbled upon it, hadn't investigated deeply.

Sounds like the functionality should be ported to a different part of the system so all applications can use it... Xwindows? Fluxbox?

Thanks for the reply.

Posted by fozner on Sep. 04 2006,04:32

I was at the dillo website the other day and they were talking about the new version being based on FLTK because GTK-2 will be too bloated. FLTK and GTK-2 support unicode buttons and boxes. Translation: Eventually, dillo will support various languages.