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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.