Automake configuration with '--with-included-iconv'

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 18/11/2020 à 14:43, Scott Kostyshak a écrit :
>> I think it is only useful for compiling with mingw32, but my memory is
>> fuzzy.
>>
>> Removing it would be a good option otherwise.
> 
> I think we use it for converting characters between encodings? I don't
> know anything about it, I just know that it has yelled at me before with
> messages like the following:
> 
>    https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/11865

I meant "removing it from 3rdparty/", of course we rely on it currently.

Concerning conversion, we could rely on Qt, but it is 16bits oriented 
AFAIK, or on the underlying ICU which Qt uses anyway. I am not sure how 
to do that best, though.

JMarc