FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>]

Il sab, 2003-12-13 alle 09:38, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> Freddy, 
> 
> Nice adding UTF-8 to replacments/iconv.  I have just one question:
> 
> iconv_t tds_rep_iconv_open(const char *tocode, const char *fromcode);
> size_t tds_rep_iconv(iconv_t cd, const char **inbuf, size_t * inbytesleft,
> char **outbuf, size_t * outbytesleft);
> int tds_rep_iconv_close(iconv_t cd);
> #define iconv_open tds_rep_iconv_open
> #define iconv tds_rep_iconv
> #define iconv_close tds_rep_iconv_close
> #endif /* !HAVE_ICONV */
> 
> Why the tds* names?  It's an iconv implementation; it should have iconv
> names.  Just like our asprintf().  
> 
> I don't anticipate linking in our iconv *and* a system iconv, so I don't
> see a reason to have two sets of names.  
> 

Assume your system have iconv in libc but you don't want to use this
version. You configure FreeTDS with --disable-libiconv. A program load
libc and FreeTDS. Now you have two iconv versions. Which iconv version
does another library loaded after FreeTDS one use?

freddy77