[TUHS] Canonical Historic Approach to iconv(1)

[Greg A. Woods]

At Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:07:56 +0000, segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Canonical Historic Approach to iconv(1)
>
> My mistake, the HP-UX reference was for iconv(3), not iconv(1).  The
> source is the current issue of POSIX, Issue 8 (2024).  Indeed iconv(1)
> is in the SVR4 manuals but only supporting system-provided charmaps.
> Additionally, while in the SVR4 manuals, I didn't spot it on first
> pass through SVID Issue 3 which is the SVR4-era issue.

It is documented in the System V Interface Definition, Fourth Edition,
Volume 2, Pages 211,212.

There's no mention of Unicode or ISO 10646 of course -- they're too new,
at least to be in any system standards by that time!  After all SVID-4
was only getting caught up with POSIX 1003.1-1990.  UTF-8 didn't even
show up more widely until early 1993, and wasn't in force in the IETF
until 1998 so you can't really expect SVID-4 to use it (even in 1995)
for a 1990-based standard.

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