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