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1 | This subdirectory contains a general character-set conversion |
2 | library, used in the Unix port of PuTTY, and available for use in |
3 | other ports if it should happen to be useful. |
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5 | This is a variant of a library that's currently used in some other |
6 | programs such as Timber and Halibut. At some future date, we would |
7 | like to merge the two libraries, so that all programs use the same |
8 | libcharset. |
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10 | It is therefore a _strong_ design goal that this library should remain |
11 | perfectly general, and not tied to particulars of PuTTY. It must not |
12 | reference any code outside its own subdirectory; it should not have |
13 | PuTTY-specific helper routines added to it unless they can be |
14 | documented in a general manner which might make them useful in other |
15 | circumstances as well. |