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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:47:56PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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

iconv is part of glibc on Debian, too.  The question is whether konwert is
available on Red Hat or not.  Anyway, the question is pretty moot, you can
always compile from source.

Diego