| New in 1.17: |
| * The libiconv library is now licensed under the LGPL version 2.1, instead of |
| the LGPL version 2.0. The iconv program continues to be licensed under GPL |
| version 3. |
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| New in 1.16: |
| * The preloadable library has been removed. |
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| New in 1.15: |
| * The UTF-8 converter now rejects surrogates and out-of-range code points. |
| * Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter. |
| * Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character. |
| * The functions now support strings longer than 2 GB. |
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| New in 1.14: |
| * The 'iconv' program now produces its output as soon as it can. It no longer |
| unnecessarily waits for more input. |
| * Updated the GB18030 converter to map 25 characters to code points that have |
| been to Unicode since 2000, rather than to code points in the Private Use |
| Area. |
| * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to |
| BIG5-HKSCS:2004. A new converter BIG5-HKSCS:2008 is added. BIG5-HKSCS is now |
| an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2008. |
| * Fixed a bug in the conversion to wchar_t. |
| * Fixed a small bug in the CP1258 converter. |
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| New in 1.13: |
| * The library and the iconv program now understand platform dependent aliases, |
| for better compatibility with the platform's own iconv_open function. |
| Examples: "646" on Solaris, "iso88591" on HP-UX, "IBM-1252" on AIX. |
| * For stateful encodings, when the input ends with a shift sequence followed |
| by invalid input, the iconv function now increments the input pointer past |
| the shift sequence before returning (size_t)(-1) with errno = EILSEQ. This |
| is also like GNU libc's iconv() behaves. |
| * The library exports a new function iconv_open_into() that stores the |
| conversion descriptor in pre-allocated memory, rather than allocating fresh |
| memory for it. |
| * Added CP1131 converter. |
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| New in 1.12: |
| * The iconv program is now licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the |
| GPL version 2. The libiconv library continues to be licensed under LGPL. |
| * Added RK1048 converter. |
| * On AIX, an existing system libiconv no longer causes setlocale() to fail. |
| * Upgraded EUC-KR, JOHAB to include the Korean postal code sign. |
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| New in 1.11: |
| * The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst, |
| --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters that |
| cannot be converted. |
| * The iconv program now understands long options: |
| long option equivalent to |
| --from-code -f |
| --to-code -t |
| --list -l |
| --silent -s |
| * The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has changed |
| to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is no longer an |
| alias of GBK. |
| * Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters. |
| * Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area characters. |
| * Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters. |
| * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to |
| BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and |
| BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004. |
| * Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter. |
| * Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >= 4.0). |
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| New in 1.10: |
| * Added ISO-8859-11 converter. |
| * Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter. |
| * Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings. |
| * Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through |
| --enable-extra-encodings. |
| * Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign. |
| * The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to |
| preloadable_libiconv.so. |
| * Portability to mingw. |
| |
| New in 1.9: |
| * Many more transliterations. |
| * New configuration option --enable-relocatable. See the INSTALL.generic file |
| for details. |
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| New in 1.8: |
| * The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s. |
| * The iconv program is internationalized. |
| * Added C99 converter. |
| * Added KOI8-T converter. |
| * New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of |
| additional encodings; see the README for details. |
| * Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter. |
| * Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to |
| Unicode 3.2. |
| * Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign. |
| * Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter. |
| * Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures |
| in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion. |
| * The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly. |
| * Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of |
| combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer. |
| * Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory |
| allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed. |
| * Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5. |
| |
| New in 1.7: |
| * Added UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE converters. |
| * Changed CP1255, CP1258 and TCVN converters to handle combining characters. |
| * Changed EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1 |
| converters to use fullwidth Yen sign instead of halfwidth Yen sign, and |
| fullwidth tilde instead of halfwidth tilde. |
| * Upgraded EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.1. |
| * Changed the GB18030 converter to not reject unassigned and private-use |
| Unicode characters. |
| * Fixed a bug in the byte order mark treatment of the UCS-4 decoder. |
| * The manual pages are now distributed also in HTML format. |
| |
| New in 1.6: |
| * The iconv program's -f and -t options are now optional. |
| * Many more transliterations. |
| * Added CP862 converter. |
| * Changed the GB18030 converter. |
| * Portability to DOS with DJGPP. |
| |
| New in 1.5: |
| * Added an iconv(1) program. |
| * New locale dependent encodings "char", "wchar_t". |
| * Transliteration is now off by default. Use a //TRANSLIT suffix to enable it. |
| * The JOHAB encoding is documented again. |
| * Changed a few mappings in the CP950 converter. |
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| New in 1.4: |
| * Added GB18030, BIG5HKSCS converters. |
| * Portability to OS/2 with emx+gcc. |
| |
| New in 1.3: |
| * Added UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE converters. |
| * Fixed the definition of EILSEQ on SunOS4. |
| * Fixed a build problem on OSF/1. |
| * Support for building as a shared library on Woe32. |
| |
| New in 1.2: |
| * Added UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE converters. |
| * Changed the UTF-16 encoder. |
| * Fixed the treatment of tab characters in the UTF-7 converter. |
| * Fixed an internal error when output buffer was not large enough. |
| |
| New in 1.1: |
| * Added ISO-8859-16 converter. |
| * Added CP932 converter, a variant of SHIFT_JIS. |
| * Added CP949 converter, a variant of EUC-KR. |
| * Improved the ISO-2022-CN-EXT converter: It now covers the ISO-IR-165 range. |
| * Updated the ISO-8859-8 conversion table. |
| * The JOHAB encoding is deprecated and not documented any more. |
| * Fixed two build problems: 1. "make -n check" failed. 2. When libiconv was |
| already installed, "make" failed. |
| |
| New in 1.0: |
| * Added transliteration facilities. |
| * Added a test suite. |
| * Fixed the iconv(3) manual page and function: the return value was not |
| described correctly. |
| * Fixed a bug in the CP1258 decoder: invalid bytes now yield EILSEQ instead of |
| U+FFFD. |
| * Fixed a bug in the Georgian-PS encoder: accept U+00E6. |
| * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP encoder: reject 0x8E5C and 0x8E7E. |
| * Fixed a bug in the KSC5601 and JOHAB converters: they recognized some Hangul |
| characters at some invalid code positions. |
| * Fixed a bug in the EUC-TW decoder; it was severely broken. |
| * Fixed a bug in the CP950 converter: it recognized a dubious BIG5 range. |
| |
| New in 0.3: |
| * Reduced the size of the tables needed for the JOHAB converter. |
| * Portability to Woe32. |
| |
| New in 0.2: |
| * Added KOI8-RU, CP850, CP866, CP874, CP950, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, GBK and |
| ISO-2022-JP-1 converters. |
| * Added MACINTOSH as an alias for MAC-ROMAN. |
| * Added ASMO-708 as an alias for ISO-8859-6. |
| * Added ELOT_928 as an alias for ISO-8859-7. |
| * Improved the EUC-TW converter: Treat CNS 11643 plane 3. |
| * Improved the ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR converters: Hangul characters are |
| decomposed into Jamo when needed. |
| * Improved the CP932 converter. |
| * Updated the CP1133, MULELAO-1 and ARMSCII-8 mappings. |
| * The EUC-JP and SHIFT_JIS converters now cover the user-defined range. |
| * Fixed a possible buffer overrun in the JOHAB converter. |
| * Fixed a bug in the UTF-7, ISO-2022-*, HZ decoders: a shift sequence a the |
| end of the input no longer gives an error. |
| * The HZ encoder now always terminates its output in the ASCII state. |
| * Use a perfect hash table for looking up the aliases. |
| |
| New in 0.1: |
| * Portability to Linux/glibc-2.0.x, Linux/libc5, OSF/1, FreeBSD. |
| * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP decoder. Extended the ISO-2022-JP-2 converter. |
| * Made TIS-620 mapping consistent with glibc-2.1. |
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