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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] [PATCH] Simplify: Remove the ability to install a
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] [PATCH] Simplify: Remove the ability to install a preloadable |
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Sat, 18 Apr 2020 22:22:11 +0200 |
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Alexander Fomichev wrote:
> I use preloadable library on Alpine Linux, which didn't have packages GNU
> libiconv before v3.10
> So PHP projects can't invoke iconv-related functions.
Alpine Linux uses musl libc, which - like glibc - has iconv() already in libc.
This iconv implementation - I have tested the one in Alpine Linux 3.9 - does
not support old encodings like Big5, EUC-JP, EUC-KR well, but it should be 99%
sufficient for encodings in use today [1].
Bruno
[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/character_encoding