2 * The iconv program is now licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the
3 GPL version 2. The libiconv library continues to be licensed under LGPL.
4 * Added RK1048 converter.
5 * On AIX, an existing system libiconv no longer causes setlocale() to fail.
6 * Upgraded EUC-KR, JOHAB to include the Korean postal code sign.
9 * The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst,
10 --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters that
12 * The iconv program now understands long options:
13 long option equivalent to
18 * The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has changed
19 to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is no longer an
21 * Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters.
22 * Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area characters.
23 * Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters.
24 * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to
25 BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and
26 BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004.
27 * Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter.
28 * Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >= 4.0).
31 * Added ISO-8859-11 converter.
32 * Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter.
33 * Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings.
34 * Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through
35 --enable-extra-encodings.
36 * Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign.
37 * The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to
38 preloadable_libiconv.so.
39 * Portability to mingw.
42 * Many more transliterations.
43 * New configuration option --enable-relocatable. See the INSTALL.generic file
47 * The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s.
48 * The iconv program is internationalized.
49 * Added C99 converter.
50 * Added KOI8-T converter.
51 * New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of
52 additional encodings; see the README for details.
53 * Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter.
54 * Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to
56 * Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign.
57 * Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter.
58 * Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures
59 in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion.
60 * The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly.
61 * Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of
62 combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer.
63 * Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory
64 allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed.
65 * Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5.
68 * Added UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE converters.
69 * Changed CP1255, CP1258 and TCVN converters to handle combining characters.
70 * Changed EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
71 converters to use fullwidth Yen sign instead of halfwidth Yen sign, and
72 fullwidth tilde instead of halfwidth tilde.
73 * Upgraded EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.1.
74 * Changed the GB18030 converter to not reject unassigned and private-use
76 * Fixed a bug in the byte order mark treatment of the UCS-4 decoder.
77 * The manual pages are now distributed also in HTML format.
80 * The iconv program's -f and -t options are now optional.
81 * Many more transliterations.
82 * Added CP862 converter.
83 * Changed the GB18030 converter.
84 * Portability to DOS with DJGPP.
87 * Added an iconv(1) program.
88 * New locale dependent encodings "char", "wchar_t".
89 * Transliteration is now off by default. Use a //TRANSLIT suffix to enable it.
90 * The JOHAB encoding is documented again.
91 * Changed a few mappings in the CP950 converter.
94 * Added GB18030, BIG5HKSCS converters.
95 * Portability to OS/2 with emx+gcc.
98 * Added UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE converters.
99 * Fixed the definition of EILSEQ on SunOS4.
100 * Fixed a build problem on OSF/1.
101 * Support for building as a shared library on Woe32.
104 * Added UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE converters.
105 * Changed the UTF-16 encoder.
106 * Fixed the treatment of tab characters in the UTF-7 converter.
107 * Fixed an internal error when output buffer was not large enough.
110 * Added ISO-8859-16 converter.
111 * Added CP932 converter, a variant of SHIFT_JIS.
112 * Added CP949 converter, a variant of EUC-KR.
113 * Improved the ISO-2022-CN-EXT converter: It now covers the ISO-IR-165 range.
114 * Updated the ISO-8859-8 conversion table.
115 * The JOHAB encoding is deprecated and not documented any more.
116 * Fixed two build problems: 1. "make -n check" failed. 2. When libiconv was
117 already installed, "make" failed.
120 * Added transliteration facilities.
121 * Added a test suite.
122 * Fixed the iconv(3) manual page and function: the return value was not
124 * Fixed a bug in the CP1258 decoder: invalid bytes now yield EILSEQ instead of
126 * Fixed a bug in the Georgian-PS encoder: accept U+00E6.
127 * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP encoder: reject 0x8E5C and 0x8E7E.
128 * Fixed a bug in the KSC5601 and JOHAB converters: they recognized some Hangul
129 characters at some invalid code positions.
130 * Fixed a bug in the EUC-TW decoder; it was severely broken.
131 * Fixed a bug in the CP950 converter: it recognized a dubious BIG5 range.
134 * Reduced the size of the tables needed for the JOHAB converter.
135 * Portability to Woe32.
138 * Added KOI8-RU, CP850, CP866, CP874, CP950, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, GBK and
139 ISO-2022-JP-1 converters.
140 * Added MACINTOSH as an alias for MAC-ROMAN.
141 * Added ASMO-708 as an alias for ISO-8859-6.
142 * Added ELOT_928 as an alias for ISO-8859-7.
143 * Improved the EUC-TW converter: Treat CNS 11643 plane 3.
144 * Improved the ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR converters: Hangul characters are
145 decomposed into Jamo when needed.
146 * Improved the CP932 converter.
147 * Updated the CP1133, MULELAO-1 and ARMSCII-8 mappings.
148 * The EUC-JP and SHIFT_JIS converters now cover the user-defined range.
149 * Fixed a possible buffer overrun in the JOHAB converter.
150 * Fixed a bug in the UTF-7, ISO-2022-*, HZ decoders: a shift sequence a the
151 end of the input no longer gives an error.
152 * The HZ encoder now always terminates its output in the ASCII state.
153 * Use a perfect hash table for looking up the aliases.
156 * Portability to Linux/glibc-2.0.x, Linux/libc5, OSF/1, FreeBSD.
157 * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP decoder. Extended the ISO-2022-JP-2 converter.
158 * Made TIS-620 mapping consistent with glibc-2.1.