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Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 19:48:25 +0200
From: Mladen Turk <mturk@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: Moving apr_xlate from apr-util to apr-iconv
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William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Mladen Turk wrote:
>>
>> OTOH, the xlate would go to it's proper place,
>> because it is a part of apr-iconv.
> 
> Nope, you got it entirely upside down.
> 
> apr_xlate is a simple (not quite simple enough) interface for encoding
> translations.  If it's via iconv, or libiconv, or any other codepage
> transformation library is irrelevant.
>

I disagree.
The entire point is that it's the translation library.
So, what is the purpose of apr-iconv anyhow?
I suppose to give a translation to platforms not having
the iconv, right? And that is Windows. So why not name
the apr-iconv win-icov?

Regards,
Mladen.