Annotation of embedaddon/libiconv/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.1
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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