| New in 1.18: | |
| * Many more transliterations. | |
| * GB18030 is now an alias for GB18030:2005. A new converter for GB18030:2022 | |
| is added. Since this encoding merely cleans up a few private-use-area | |
| mappings, you can continue to use the GB18030 converter, for backward | |
| compatibility. Its Unicode to GB18030 conversion direction has been | |
| enhanced, to help transitioning away from PUA code points. | |
| * When converting from/to an EBCDIC encoding, a non-standard way of | |
| converting newlines can be requested | |
| - at the C level, by calling iconvctl with argument ICONV_SET_FROM_SURFACE | |
| or ICONV_SET_TO_SURFACE, or | |
| - from the iconv program, by setting the environment variable | |
| ICONV_EBCDIC_ZOS_UNIX to a non-empty value. | |
| * Special support for z/OS: The iconv program adds a charset metadata tag to | |
| its output file. (Contributed by Mike Fulton.) | |
| 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. | |
| * Added converters for many single-byte EBCDIC encodings: | |
| IBM-{037,273,277,278,280,282,284,285,297,423,424,425,500,838,870,871,875}, | |
| IBM-{880,905,924,1025,1026,1047,1097,1112,1122,1123,1130,1132,1137,1140}, | |
| IBM-{1141,1142,1143,1144,1145,1146,1147,1148,1149,1153,1154,1155,1156,1157}, | |
| IBM-{1158,1160,1164,1165,1166,4971,12712,16804}. | |
| They are available through the configure option '--enable-extra-encodings'. | |
| New in 1.16: | |
| * The preloadable library has been removed. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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). | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |