[MPlayer-DOCS] en/install.xml : konwert and iconv issue

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at rangers.eu.org
Thu Dec 18 22:47:56 CET 2003


On Thursday, 18 December 2003 at 05:34, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> Maciej Paszta writes:
>  > Recoding from different codepages to UTF8 could be done by using konwert 
>  > (Debian) or iconv (Red Hat) programs.
>  > 
>  > The previous line are from install.xml. I don't see a point in binding konwert 
>  > with Debian and iconv with RH. In most of the modern distrios you can choose 
>  > between this and this. So why making thi demarcation here?
> 
> I don't see a point either.  Both konwert and iconv are available on
> Debian.  No idea about Red Hat, though.  So I'd say remove it or let
> Dominik comment first, he is a Red Hat guy.

konwert is not a standard RedHat tool. iconv is.
$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/iconv
glibc-common-2.2.5-44

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