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small project


Hi there,

Ulrich Drepper writes:
 > What I have in mind is an extension to fopen.  The second parameter is
 > designed with extensions in might.  ISO C allows this.  Therefore I'd
 > like to see something like this:
 > 
 > 	fp = fopen ("somefile", "r,ccs=XYZ");
 > 
 > This would open the file as usual, but also orient the string to be
 > wide and instead of using the conversion functions from the current
 > locale, load the functions and create the data structures so that
 > charset XYZ is used.

Interesting.  I think that it's good idea to relate buffer-oriented
function and conversion function.

 > Any volunteers?  The needed code should all be there already, you
 > simply would have to take it from the different places.  Please let me
 > know before starting on this.

I'd like to take this one, as it's small and interesting for me very
much.  However I don't have enough time untill August.  So if someone
can do this, I don't mind.

Regards,
-- 
Niibe Yutaka

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