Annotation of embedaddon/libiconv/NEWS, revision 1.1
1.1 ! misho 1: New in 1.13:
! 2: * The library and the iconv program now understand platform dependent aliases,
! 3: for better compatibility with the platform's own iconv_open function.
! 4: Examples: "646" on Solaris, "iso88591" on HP-UX, "IBM-1252" on AIX.
! 5: * For stateful encodings, when the input ends with a shift sequence followed
! 6: by invalid input, the iconv function now increments the input pointer past
! 7: the shift sequence before returning (size_t)(-1) with errno = EILSEQ. This
! 8: is also like GNU libc's iconv() behaves.
! 9: * The library exports a new function iconv_open_into() that stores the
! 10: conversion descriptor in pre-allocated memory, rather than allocating fresh
! 11: memory for it.
! 12: * Added CP1131 converter.
! 13:
! 14: New in 1.12:
! 15: * The iconv program is now licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the
! 16: GPL version 2. The libiconv library continues to be licensed under LGPL.
! 17: * Added RK1048 converter.
! 18: * On AIX, an existing system libiconv no longer causes setlocale() to fail.
! 19: * Upgraded EUC-KR, JOHAB to include the Korean postal code sign.
! 20:
! 21: New in 1.11:
! 22: * The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst,
! 23: --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters that
! 24: cannot be converted.
! 25: * The iconv program now understands long options:
! 26: long option equivalent to
! 27: --from-code -f
! 28: --to-code -t
! 29: --list -l
! 30: --silent -s
! 31: * The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has changed
! 32: to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is no longer an
! 33: alias of GBK.
! 34: * Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters.
! 35: * Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area characters.
! 36: * Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters.
! 37: * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to
! 38: BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and
! 39: BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004.
! 40: * Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter.
! 41: * Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >= 4.0).
! 42:
! 43: New in 1.10:
! 44: * Added ISO-8859-11 converter.
! 45: * Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter.
! 46: * Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings.
! 47: * Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through
! 48: --enable-extra-encodings.
! 49: * Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign.
! 50: * The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to
! 51: preloadable_libiconv.so.
! 52: * Portability to mingw.
! 53:
! 54: New in 1.9:
! 55: * Many more transliterations.
! 56: * New configuration option --enable-relocatable. See the INSTALL.generic file
! 57: for details.
! 58:
! 59: New in 1.8:
! 60: * The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s.
! 61: * The iconv program is internationalized.
! 62: * Added C99 converter.
! 63: * Added KOI8-T converter.
! 64: * New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of
! 65: additional encodings; see the README for details.
! 66: * Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter.
! 67: * Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to
! 68: Unicode 3.2.
! 69: * Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign.
! 70: * Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter.
! 71: * Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures
! 72: in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion.
! 73: * The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly.
! 74: * Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of
! 75: combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer.
! 76: * Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory
! 77: allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed.
! 78: * Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5.
! 79:
! 80: New in 1.7:
! 81: * Added UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE converters.
! 82: * Changed CP1255, CP1258 and TCVN converters to handle combining characters.
! 83: * Changed EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
! 84: converters to use fullwidth Yen sign instead of halfwidth Yen sign, and
! 85: fullwidth tilde instead of halfwidth tilde.
! 86: * Upgraded EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.1.
! 87: * Changed the GB18030 converter to not reject unassigned and private-use
! 88: Unicode characters.
! 89: * Fixed a bug in the byte order mark treatment of the UCS-4 decoder.
! 90: * The manual pages are now distributed also in HTML format.
! 91:
! 92: New in 1.6:
! 93: * The iconv program's -f and -t options are now optional.
! 94: * Many more transliterations.
! 95: * Added CP862 converter.
! 96: * Changed the GB18030 converter.
! 97: * Portability to DOS with DJGPP.
! 98:
! 99: New in 1.5:
! 100: * Added an iconv(1) program.
! 101: * New locale dependent encodings "char", "wchar_t".
! 102: * Transliteration is now off by default. Use a //TRANSLIT suffix to enable it.
! 103: * The JOHAB encoding is documented again.
! 104: * Changed a few mappings in the CP950 converter.
! 105:
! 106: New in 1.4:
! 107: * Added GB18030, BIG5HKSCS converters.
! 108: * Portability to OS/2 with emx+gcc.
! 109:
! 110: New in 1.3:
! 111: * Added UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE converters.
! 112: * Fixed the definition of EILSEQ on SunOS4.
! 113: * Fixed a build problem on OSF/1.
! 114: * Support for building as a shared library on Woe32.
! 115:
! 116: New in 1.2:
! 117: * Added UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE converters.
! 118: * Changed the UTF-16 encoder.
! 119: * Fixed the treatment of tab characters in the UTF-7 converter.
! 120: * Fixed an internal error when output buffer was not large enough.
! 121:
! 122: New in 1.1:
! 123: * Added ISO-8859-16 converter.
! 124: * Added CP932 converter, a variant of SHIFT_JIS.
! 125: * Added CP949 converter, a variant of EUC-KR.
! 126: * Improved the ISO-2022-CN-EXT converter: It now covers the ISO-IR-165 range.
! 127: * Updated the ISO-8859-8 conversion table.
! 128: * The JOHAB encoding is deprecated and not documented any more.
! 129: * Fixed two build problems: 1. "make -n check" failed. 2. When libiconv was
! 130: already installed, "make" failed.
! 131:
! 132: New in 1.0:
! 133: * Added transliteration facilities.
! 134: * Added a test suite.
! 135: * Fixed the iconv(3) manual page and function: the return value was not
! 136: described correctly.
! 137: * Fixed a bug in the CP1258 decoder: invalid bytes now yield EILSEQ instead of
! 138: U+FFFD.
! 139: * Fixed a bug in the Georgian-PS encoder: accept U+00E6.
! 140: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP encoder: reject 0x8E5C and 0x8E7E.
! 141: * Fixed a bug in the KSC5601 and JOHAB converters: they recognized some Hangul
! 142: characters at some invalid code positions.
! 143: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-TW decoder; it was severely broken.
! 144: * Fixed a bug in the CP950 converter: it recognized a dubious BIG5 range.
! 145:
! 146: New in 0.3:
! 147: * Reduced the size of the tables needed for the JOHAB converter.
! 148: * Portability to Woe32.
! 149:
! 150: New in 0.2:
! 151: * Added KOI8-RU, CP850, CP866, CP874, CP950, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, GBK and
! 152: ISO-2022-JP-1 converters.
! 153: * Added MACINTOSH as an alias for MAC-ROMAN.
! 154: * Added ASMO-708 as an alias for ISO-8859-6.
! 155: * Added ELOT_928 as an alias for ISO-8859-7.
! 156: * Improved the EUC-TW converter: Treat CNS 11643 plane 3.
! 157: * Improved the ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR converters: Hangul characters are
! 158: decomposed into Jamo when needed.
! 159: * Improved the CP932 converter.
! 160: * Updated the CP1133, MULELAO-1 and ARMSCII-8 mappings.
! 161: * The EUC-JP and SHIFT_JIS converters now cover the user-defined range.
! 162: * Fixed a possible buffer overrun in the JOHAB converter.
! 163: * Fixed a bug in the UTF-7, ISO-2022-*, HZ decoders: a shift sequence a the
! 164: end of the input no longer gives an error.
! 165: * The HZ encoder now always terminates its output in the ASCII state.
! 166: * Use a perfect hash table for looking up the aliases.
! 167:
! 168: New in 0.1:
! 169: * Portability to Linux/glibc-2.0.x, Linux/libc5, OSF/1, FreeBSD.
! 170: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP decoder. Extended the ISO-2022-JP-2 converter.
! 171: * Made TIS-620 mapping consistent with glibc-2.1.
! 172:
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