[PATCH 0/5] iconv: module for MODIFIED-UTF-7

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 02/09/2020 12:24, Max Gautier via Libc-alpha wrote:
> * Florian Weimer:
>> Let's try to get it added to the IANA registry?  It's odd that a
>> charset defined in an RFC is not already contained in it.
> 
> While we do that, is there someone who would have time to review the
> code itself, so we'll be able to proceed once the charset name get
> registered ?
> 

I haven't read the RFC to comment whether the resulting patch matches
the standard, but the patchset structure looks good.  Although I am
not very found of the copy duplication of the utf7 module, the resulting
patch does make clear what is the difference compared to default utf-7 
modified one (and I am not sure if trying to parametrize iconvdata/utf-7.c
really pays off here). I noticed only some minor style issues.

The only worry I have if this encoding is really used in the wild that
justify its inclusion on glibc.  The fact that it is defined for about 
17 years without anyone having the trouble to register it on IANA makes
me doubtful it is really that useful.