Annotation of embedaddon/libiconv/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.2
1.1.1.2 ! misho 1: New in 1.14:
! 2: * The 'iconv' program now produces its output as soon as it can. It no longer
! 3: unnecessarily waits for more input.
! 4: * Updated the GB18030 converter to map 25 characters to code points that have
! 5: been to Unicode since 2000, rather than to code points in the Private Use
! 6: Area.
! 7: * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to
! 8: BIG5-HKSCS:2004. A new converter BIG5-HKSCS:2008 is added. BIG5-HKSCS is now
! 9: an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2008.
! 10: * Fixed a bug in the conversion to wchar_t.
! 11: * Fixed a small bug in the CP1258 converter.
! 12:
1.1 misho 13: New in 1.13:
14: * The library and the iconv program now understand platform dependent aliases,
15: for better compatibility with the platform's own iconv_open function.
16: Examples: "646" on Solaris, "iso88591" on HP-UX, "IBM-1252" on AIX.
17: * For stateful encodings, when the input ends with a shift sequence followed
18: by invalid input, the iconv function now increments the input pointer past
19: the shift sequence before returning (size_t)(-1) with errno = EILSEQ. This
20: is also like GNU libc's iconv() behaves.
21: * The library exports a new function iconv_open_into() that stores the
22: conversion descriptor in pre-allocated memory, rather than allocating fresh
23: memory for it.
24: * Added CP1131 converter.
25:
26: New in 1.12:
27: * The iconv program is now licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the
28: GPL version 2. The libiconv library continues to be licensed under LGPL.
29: * Added RK1048 converter.
30: * On AIX, an existing system libiconv no longer causes setlocale() to fail.
31: * Upgraded EUC-KR, JOHAB to include the Korean postal code sign.
32:
33: New in 1.11:
34: * The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst,
35: --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters that
36: cannot be converted.
37: * The iconv program now understands long options:
38: long option equivalent to
39: --from-code -f
40: --to-code -t
41: --list -l
42: --silent -s
43: * The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has changed
44: to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is no longer an
45: alias of GBK.
46: * Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters.
47: * Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area characters.
48: * Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters.
49: * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to
50: BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and
51: BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004.
52: * Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter.
53: * Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >= 4.0).
54:
55: New in 1.10:
56: * Added ISO-8859-11 converter.
57: * Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter.
58: * Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings.
59: * Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through
60: --enable-extra-encodings.
61: * Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign.
62: * The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to
63: preloadable_libiconv.so.
64: * Portability to mingw.
65:
66: New in 1.9:
67: * Many more transliterations.
68: * New configuration option --enable-relocatable. See the INSTALL.generic file
69: for details.
70:
71: New in 1.8:
72: * The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s.
73: * The iconv program is internationalized.
74: * Added C99 converter.
75: * Added KOI8-T converter.
76: * New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of
77: additional encodings; see the README for details.
78: * Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter.
79: * Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to
80: Unicode 3.2.
81: * Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign.
82: * Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter.
83: * Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures
84: in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion.
85: * The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly.
86: * Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of
87: combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer.
88: * Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory
89: allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed.
90: * Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5.
91:
92: New in 1.7:
93: * Added UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE converters.
94: * Changed CP1255, CP1258 and TCVN converters to handle combining characters.
95: * Changed EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
96: converters to use fullwidth Yen sign instead of halfwidth Yen sign, and
97: fullwidth tilde instead of halfwidth tilde.
98: * Upgraded EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.1.
99: * Changed the GB18030 converter to not reject unassigned and private-use
100: Unicode characters.
101: * Fixed a bug in the byte order mark treatment of the UCS-4 decoder.
102: * The manual pages are now distributed also in HTML format.
103:
104: New in 1.6:
105: * The iconv program's -f and -t options are now optional.
106: * Many more transliterations.
107: * Added CP862 converter.
108: * Changed the GB18030 converter.
109: * Portability to DOS with DJGPP.
110:
111: New in 1.5:
112: * Added an iconv(1) program.
113: * New locale dependent encodings "char", "wchar_t".
114: * Transliteration is now off by default. Use a //TRANSLIT suffix to enable it.
115: * The JOHAB encoding is documented again.
116: * Changed a few mappings in the CP950 converter.
117:
118: New in 1.4:
119: * Added GB18030, BIG5HKSCS converters.
120: * Portability to OS/2 with emx+gcc.
121:
122: New in 1.3:
123: * Added UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE converters.
124: * Fixed the definition of EILSEQ on SunOS4.
125: * Fixed a build problem on OSF/1.
126: * Support for building as a shared library on Woe32.
127:
128: New in 1.2:
129: * Added UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE converters.
130: * Changed the UTF-16 encoder.
131: * Fixed the treatment of tab characters in the UTF-7 converter.
132: * Fixed an internal error when output buffer was not large enough.
133:
134: New in 1.1:
135: * Added ISO-8859-16 converter.
136: * Added CP932 converter, a variant of SHIFT_JIS.
137: * Added CP949 converter, a variant of EUC-KR.
138: * Improved the ISO-2022-CN-EXT converter: It now covers the ISO-IR-165 range.
139: * Updated the ISO-8859-8 conversion table.
140: * The JOHAB encoding is deprecated and not documented any more.
141: * Fixed two build problems: 1. "make -n check" failed. 2. When libiconv was
142: already installed, "make" failed.
143:
144: New in 1.0:
145: * Added transliteration facilities.
146: * Added a test suite.
147: * Fixed the iconv(3) manual page and function: the return value was not
148: described correctly.
149: * Fixed a bug in the CP1258 decoder: invalid bytes now yield EILSEQ instead of
150: U+FFFD.
151: * Fixed a bug in the Georgian-PS encoder: accept U+00E6.
152: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP encoder: reject 0x8E5C and 0x8E7E.
153: * Fixed a bug in the KSC5601 and JOHAB converters: they recognized some Hangul
154: characters at some invalid code positions.
155: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-TW decoder; it was severely broken.
156: * Fixed a bug in the CP950 converter: it recognized a dubious BIG5 range.
157:
158: New in 0.3:
159: * Reduced the size of the tables needed for the JOHAB converter.
160: * Portability to Woe32.
161:
162: New in 0.2:
163: * Added KOI8-RU, CP850, CP866, CP874, CP950, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, GBK and
164: ISO-2022-JP-1 converters.
165: * Added MACINTOSH as an alias for MAC-ROMAN.
166: * Added ASMO-708 as an alias for ISO-8859-6.
167: * Added ELOT_928 as an alias for ISO-8859-7.
168: * Improved the EUC-TW converter: Treat CNS 11643 plane 3.
169: * Improved the ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR converters: Hangul characters are
170: decomposed into Jamo when needed.
171: * Improved the CP932 converter.
172: * Updated the CP1133, MULELAO-1 and ARMSCII-8 mappings.
173: * The EUC-JP and SHIFT_JIS converters now cover the user-defined range.
174: * Fixed a possible buffer overrun in the JOHAB converter.
175: * Fixed a bug in the UTF-7, ISO-2022-*, HZ decoders: a shift sequence a the
176: end of the input no longer gives an error.
177: * The HZ encoder now always terminates its output in the ASCII state.
178: * Use a perfect hash table for looking up the aliases.
179:
180: New in 0.1:
181: * Portability to Linux/glibc-2.0.x, Linux/libc5, OSF/1, FreeBSD.
182: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP decoder. Extended the ISO-2022-JP-2 converter.
183: * Made TIS-620 mapping consistent with glibc-2.1.
184:
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