Re: [PATCH] iconvconfig.8: New page for iconvconfig(8)

[Marko Myllynen <myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

On 2014-06-11 13:29, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 06/11/2014 10:09 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>> On 2014-06-10 22:43, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>>> On 06/10/2014 10:39 AM, Marko Myllynen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> while writing the iconv(1) page I noticed there was no page for
>>>> iconvconfig(8) so I wrote one, please see below.
>>>
>>> Again, some comments below. Could you address and send a v2, please.
>>
>> ok, please see below, hopefully the explanation are now clearer
>> without going into too low level details.
>> +a fastloading gconv module configuration cache file.
> 
> I see that since you wrote the last version, you did a s/iconv/gconv/
> in the above line. That typo really confused me before; now things make 
> more sense.

I'm not sure does it really classify as a typo, it's more like that
gconv = GNU (C library) iconv implementation, they can often be used
interchangeably. It's indeed a bit confusing but sticking with one or
the other is a bit hard given that the program name is iconv and the
environment variable is GCONV_PATH.

Thanks,

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Marko Myllynen
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