From 2fecf6b44d25bc182f28332b18ada12bfb069fad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Roessler Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 09:37:57 +0000 Subject: Some changes from EGE. --- INSTALL | 31 ++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 7ad44fd8..ac8bc8b2 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -169,21 +169,22 @@ Please note that "VPATH" builds currently do _not_ work. Character set support ===================== -Mutt has extensive support for doing character set conversions. To -use this, you'll need the proper character set definition files. - -If these files are already installed on your system (glibc 2.0 -includes them), you can tell the configure script this by using the ---with-charmaps option. As an argument, it takes the directory in -which the character set definition files have been installed. By -default, configure looks into /usr/share/i18n/charmaps. - -If these files are not present on your system, you can download a -charmaps tar-ball from the same place from which you got mutt (e.g., -ftp.guug.de/pub/mutt/). Unpack it under the mutt toplevel source -directory, and re-configure mutt. configure will detect this; the -character set definition files should be automatically installed in -the proper place. +Mutt no longer contains functions for doing character set conversion. +Instead, it expects the iconv functions (iconv_open, iconv, +iconv_close) to be provided. Most up-to-date systems provide these +functions, often as part of the C library. If you are installing Mutt +on a system which does not have them, it is recommended that you +install Bruno Haible's portable libiconv library, which you can obtain +from: + +ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ + +Even if your system does provide the iconv functions, you might want +to install libiconv, as some systems provide only a very limited +version of iconv. + +If you really want to, you can configure Mutt --without-iconv, but +there will then be no character set conversion. Platform Notes -- cgit v1.2.3