From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-07T02:03:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Pure ruby iconv?

James Gray wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
>> Any suggestions? Or do I need to put a bounty out there for a pure
>> ruby iconv now?
> 
> I sure hope you're planning to offer considerable more than $100 for 
> that effort.  This is no Zlib!

That's for sure...Iconv is a brute. I'd love to see a pure Ruby version 
(and in this case we'd probably use it in JRuby as well), but it would 
mean a substantial amount of effort.

Not that I'm trying to scare anyone interested in doing it, of course :)

- Charlie