On 17 Jan 2003, Meik Hellmund wrote:
> I see, you are the author of PCRE, too.
And other things. You can produce a lot of code in 32 years. :-)
> But iconv is able to do more. What about a general
> ${iconv{from-encoding}{to-encoding}{string}}
> expansion operator? This should not be difficult with the iconv_*() functions
> in the GNU libc but I have no idea how the support outside Linux looks like.
That's the point. Although many folk live in a Linux-only world, Exim
runs on many other OS. Indeed, I develop it on Solaris at present, which
I see does have iconv(), but I don't know how compatible it is. I've
made a not to investigate sometime.
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