Re: UTF8 encoding on Solaris 8

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 11:32  pm, Andreas Hoeschler wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I just realized that GNUstep (at least my installation) on Solaris 8 
> cannot handle UTF8.
>
>    	[[NSString alloc] initWithData:unicodeData 
> encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
>
> The above works on MacOSX but returns nil on GNUstep. I searched the 
> archives and found that iconv needs to be available.

No longer ... the GNUstep base library now has native utf-8 support and 
doesn't need iconv for that (though it does need iconv
for most other charactersets).