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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: iconv "versions"
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 08:54:00 -0400
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:43:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> If you want to see a real morass, just look at the gettext-related code
>> in GNU's glibc.
>
> I’m guessing, much of that would be remaining backward compatibility with 
> legacy pre-Unicode national character sets.

Time to move forward?

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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories,
his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the
worst, and so grow gently old all down the unchanging days and die one
day like any other day, only shorter.
		-- Samuel Beckett, "Malone Dies"