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