Annotation of embedaddon/libiconv/NEWS, revision 1.1.1.3
1.1.1.3 ! misho 1: New in 1.16:
! 2: * The preloadable library has been removed.
! 3:
! 4: New in 1.15:
! 5: * The UTF-8 converter now rejects surrogates and out-of-range code points.
! 6: * Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter.
! 7: * Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character.
! 8: * The functions now support strings longer than 2 GB.
! 9:
1.1.1.2 misho 10: New in 1.14:
11: * The 'iconv' program now produces its output as soon as it can. It no longer
12: unnecessarily waits for more input.
13: * Updated the GB18030 converter to map 25 characters to code points that have
14: been to Unicode since 2000, rather than to code points in the Private Use
15: Area.
16: * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to
17: BIG5-HKSCS:2004. A new converter BIG5-HKSCS:2008 is added. BIG5-HKSCS is now
18: an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2008.
19: * Fixed a bug in the conversion to wchar_t.
20: * Fixed a small bug in the CP1258 converter.
21:
1.1 misho 22: New in 1.13:
23: * The library and the iconv program now understand platform dependent aliases,
24: for better compatibility with the platform's own iconv_open function.
25: Examples: "646" on Solaris, "iso88591" on HP-UX, "IBM-1252" on AIX.
26: * For stateful encodings, when the input ends with a shift sequence followed
27: by invalid input, the iconv function now increments the input pointer past
28: the shift sequence before returning (size_t)(-1) with errno = EILSEQ. This
29: is also like GNU libc's iconv() behaves.
30: * The library exports a new function iconv_open_into() that stores the
31: conversion descriptor in pre-allocated memory, rather than allocating fresh
32: memory for it.
33: * Added CP1131 converter.
34:
35: New in 1.12:
36: * The iconv program is now licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the
37: GPL version 2. The libiconv library continues to be licensed under LGPL.
38: * Added RK1048 converter.
39: * On AIX, an existing system libiconv no longer causes setlocale() to fail.
40: * Upgraded EUC-KR, JOHAB to include the Korean postal code sign.
41:
42: New in 1.11:
43: * The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst,
44: --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters that
45: cannot be converted.
46: * The iconv program now understands long options:
47: long option equivalent to
48: --from-code -f
49: --to-code -t
50: --list -l
51: --silent -s
52: * The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has changed
53: to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is no longer an
54: alias of GBK.
55: * Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters.
56: * Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area characters.
57: * Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters.
58: * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to
59: BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and
60: BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004.
61: * Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter.
62: * Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >= 4.0).
63:
64: New in 1.10:
65: * Added ISO-8859-11 converter.
66: * Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter.
67: * Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings.
68: * Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through
69: --enable-extra-encodings.
70: * Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign.
71: * The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to
72: preloadable_libiconv.so.
73: * Portability to mingw.
74:
75: New in 1.9:
76: * Many more transliterations.
77: * New configuration option --enable-relocatable. See the INSTALL.generic file
78: for details.
79:
80: New in 1.8:
81: * The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s.
82: * The iconv program is internationalized.
83: * Added C99 converter.
84: * Added KOI8-T converter.
85: * New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of
86: additional encodings; see the README for details.
87: * Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter.
88: * Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to
89: Unicode 3.2.
90: * Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign.
91: * Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter.
92: * Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures
93: in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion.
94: * The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly.
95: * Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of
96: combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer.
97: * Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory
98: allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed.
99: * Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5.
100:
101: New in 1.7:
102: * Added UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE converters.
103: * Changed CP1255, CP1258 and TCVN converters to handle combining characters.
104: * Changed EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
105: converters to use fullwidth Yen sign instead of halfwidth Yen sign, and
106: fullwidth tilde instead of halfwidth tilde.
107: * Upgraded EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.1.
108: * Changed the GB18030 converter to not reject unassigned and private-use
109: Unicode characters.
110: * Fixed a bug in the byte order mark treatment of the UCS-4 decoder.
111: * The manual pages are now distributed also in HTML format.
112:
113: New in 1.6:
114: * The iconv program's -f and -t options are now optional.
115: * Many more transliterations.
116: * Added CP862 converter.
117: * Changed the GB18030 converter.
118: * Portability to DOS with DJGPP.
119:
120: New in 1.5:
121: * Added an iconv(1) program.
122: * New locale dependent encodings "char", "wchar_t".
123: * Transliteration is now off by default. Use a //TRANSLIT suffix to enable it.
124: * The JOHAB encoding is documented again.
125: * Changed a few mappings in the CP950 converter.
126:
127: New in 1.4:
128: * Added GB18030, BIG5HKSCS converters.
129: * Portability to OS/2 with emx+gcc.
130:
131: New in 1.3:
132: * Added UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE converters.
133: * Fixed the definition of EILSEQ on SunOS4.
134: * Fixed a build problem on OSF/1.
135: * Support for building as a shared library on Woe32.
136:
137: New in 1.2:
138: * Added UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE converters.
139: * Changed the UTF-16 encoder.
140: * Fixed the treatment of tab characters in the UTF-7 converter.
141: * Fixed an internal error when output buffer was not large enough.
142:
143: New in 1.1:
144: * Added ISO-8859-16 converter.
145: * Added CP932 converter, a variant of SHIFT_JIS.
146: * Added CP949 converter, a variant of EUC-KR.
147: * Improved the ISO-2022-CN-EXT converter: It now covers the ISO-IR-165 range.
148: * Updated the ISO-8859-8 conversion table.
149: * The JOHAB encoding is deprecated and not documented any more.
150: * Fixed two build problems: 1. "make -n check" failed. 2. When libiconv was
151: already installed, "make" failed.
152:
153: New in 1.0:
154: * Added transliteration facilities.
155: * Added a test suite.
156: * Fixed the iconv(3) manual page and function: the return value was not
157: described correctly.
158: * Fixed a bug in the CP1258 decoder: invalid bytes now yield EILSEQ instead of
159: U+FFFD.
160: * Fixed a bug in the Georgian-PS encoder: accept U+00E6.
161: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP encoder: reject 0x8E5C and 0x8E7E.
162: * Fixed a bug in the KSC5601 and JOHAB converters: they recognized some Hangul
163: characters at some invalid code positions.
164: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-TW decoder; it was severely broken.
165: * Fixed a bug in the CP950 converter: it recognized a dubious BIG5 range.
166:
167: New in 0.3:
168: * Reduced the size of the tables needed for the JOHAB converter.
169: * Portability to Woe32.
170:
171: New in 0.2:
172: * Added KOI8-RU, CP850, CP866, CP874, CP950, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, GBK and
173: ISO-2022-JP-1 converters.
174: * Added MACINTOSH as an alias for MAC-ROMAN.
175: * Added ASMO-708 as an alias for ISO-8859-6.
176: * Added ELOT_928 as an alias for ISO-8859-7.
177: * Improved the EUC-TW converter: Treat CNS 11643 plane 3.
178: * Improved the ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR converters: Hangul characters are
179: decomposed into Jamo when needed.
180: * Improved the CP932 converter.
181: * Updated the CP1133, MULELAO-1 and ARMSCII-8 mappings.
182: * The EUC-JP and SHIFT_JIS converters now cover the user-defined range.
183: * Fixed a possible buffer overrun in the JOHAB converter.
184: * Fixed a bug in the UTF-7, ISO-2022-*, HZ decoders: a shift sequence a the
185: end of the input no longer gives an error.
186: * The HZ encoder now always terminates its output in the ASCII state.
187: * Use a perfect hash table for looking up the aliases.
188:
189: New in 0.1:
190: * Portability to Linux/glibc-2.0.x, Linux/libc5, OSF/1, FreeBSD.
191: * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP decoder. Extended the ISO-2022-JP-2 converter.
192: * Made TIS-620 mapping consistent with glibc-2.1.
193:
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