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Posted to dev@etch.apache.org by "Thomas Marsh (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org> on 2011/09/27 17:59:11 UTC

[jira] [Created] (ETCH-178) Reliance on APR Iconv unnecessary

Reliance on APR Iconv unnecessary
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                 Key: ETCH-178
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ETCH-178
             Project: Etch
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: c-binding
         Environment: Embedded environments - testing on Linux/ARM
            Reporter: Thomas Marsh


APR Iconv is an excessive dependency on embedded platforms which already provide a native iconv. However, there are several issues with supporting native iconv codepages. Etch/C hardcodes non-standard encoding names. For example, "utf-8" and "ucs2-internal" are used instead of "UTF-8" and I believe "USC-2-INTERNAL" is deprecated - perhaps the "WCHAR_T" encoding is the preferred approach.

In relation to issue ETCH-177, non-portable assumptions about encodings result in numerous issues when trying to modify the code to support native iconv. These issues manifest themselves in various places, but especially in bintdo_write_string() which makes comparisons of wire and local encodings.

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