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compilation test for Unicode build
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index 4c9d38cf1927787fbb33746e3f9c6cad059a77fc..c55469c0a2be23b417715049b71c1d4b76b5844a 100644 (file)
@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-// Name:        strconv.cpp
+// Name:        src/common/strconv.cpp
 // Purpose:     Unicode conversion classes
-// Author:      Ove Kaaven, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin, Vaclav Slavik
+// Author:      Ove Kaaven, Robert Roebling, Vadim Zeitlin, Vaclav Slavik,
+//              Ryan Norton, Fredrik Roubert (UTF7)
 // Modified by:
 // Created:     29/01/98
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
 // Copyright:   (c) 1999 Ove Kaaven, Robert Roebling, Vaclav Slavik
 //              (c) 2000-2003 Vadim Zeitlin
+//              (c) 2004 Ryan Norton, Fredrik Roubert
 // Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // headers
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#if defined(__GNUG__) && !defined(NO_GCC_PRAGMA)
-  #pragma implementation "strconv.h"
-#endif
-
 // For compilers that support precompilation, includes "wx.h".
 #include "wx/wxprec.h"
 
     #include "wx/log.h"
 #endif // WX_PRECOMP
 
-#ifdef __WXMSW__
+#include "wx/strconv.h"
+
+#if wxUSE_WCHAR_T
+
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
     #include "wx/msw/private.h"
+    #include "wx/msw/missing.h"
 #endif
 
 #ifndef __WXWINCE__
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 
-#include "wx/module.h"
-#include "wx/strconv.h"
-
 #if defined(__WIN32__) && !defined(__WXMICROWIN__)
     #define wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
 #endif // __WIN32__ but !__WXMICROWIN__
 
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// globals
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#if wxUSE_WCHAR_T
-    WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv) wxConvLibc;
-    WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxCSConv) wxConvLocal((const wxChar *)NULL);
-    WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxCSConv) wxConvISO8859_1(_T("iso-8859-1"));
-#else
-    // stand-ins in absence of wchar_t
-    WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv) wxConvLibc,
-                                    wxConvFile,
-                                    wxConvISO8859_1,
-                                    wxConvLocal,
-                                    wxConvUTF8;
-#endif // wxUSE_WCHAR_T
-
-WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv *) wxConvCurrent = &wxConvLibc;
-
-class wxStrConvModule: public wxModule
-{
-public:
-    wxStrConvModule() : wxModule() { }
-    virtual bool OnInit() { return true; }
-    virtual void OnExit()
-    {
-#if wxUSE_WCHAR_T
-         wxConvLocal.Clear();
-         wxConvISO8859_1.Clear();
-#endif
-    }
-
-    DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxStrConvModule)
-};
-
-IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS(wxStrConvModule, wxModule)
-
-
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// headers
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-#if wxUSE_WCHAR_T
-
 #ifdef __SALFORDC__
     #include <clib.h>
 #endif
 
 #ifdef HAVE_ICONV
     #include <iconv.h>
+    #include "wx/thread.h"
 #endif
 
 #include "wx/encconv.h"
 #include "wx/fontmap.h"
+#include "wx/utils.h"
 
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// macros
-// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#ifdef __WXMAC__
+#ifndef __DARWIN__
+#include <ATSUnicode.h>
+#include <TextCommon.h>
+#include <TextEncodingConverter.h>
+#endif
 
-#define BSWAP_UCS4(str, len) { unsigned _c; for (_c=0; _c<len; _c++) str[_c]=wxUINT32_SWAP_ALWAYS(str[_c]); }
-#define BSWAP_UTF16(str, len) { unsigned _c; for (_c=0; _c<len; _c++) str[_c]=wxUINT16_SWAP_ALWAYS(str[_c]); }
+#include  "wx/mac/private.h"  // includes mac headers
+#endif
 
-// under Unix SIZEOF_WCHAR_T is defined by configure, but under other platforms
-// it might be not defined - assume the most common value
-#ifndef SIZEOF_WCHAR_T
-    #define SIZEOF_WCHAR_T 2
-#endif // !defined(SIZEOF_WCHAR_T)
+#define TRACE_STRCONV _T("strconv")
 
-#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
-    #define WC_NAME         "UCS4"
-    #define WC_BSWAP         BSWAP_UCS4
-    #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
-      #define WC_NAME_BEST  "UCS-4BE"
-    #else
-      #define WC_NAME_BEST  "UCS-4LE"
-    #endif
-#elif SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 2
-    #define WC_NAME         "UTF16"
-    #define WC_BSWAP         BSWAP_UTF16
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 2
     #define WC_UTF16
-    #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
-      #define WC_NAME_BEST  "UTF-16BE"
-    #else
-      #define WC_NAME_BEST  "UTF-16LE"
-    #endif
-#else // sizeof(wchar_t) != 2 nor 4
-    // I don't know what to do about this
-    #error "Weird sizeof(wchar_t): please report your platform details to wx-users mailing list"
 #endif
 
 // ============================================================================
@@ -156,7 +95,8 @@ static size_t encode_utf16(wxUint32 input, wxUint16 *output)
 {
     if (input<=0xffff)
     {
-        if (output) *output++ = (wxUint16) input;
+        if (output)
+            *output = (wxUint16) input;
         return 1;
     }
     else if (input>=0x110000)
@@ -168,7 +108,7 @@ static size_t encode_utf16(wxUint32 input, wxUint16 *output)
         if (output)
         {
             *output++ = (wxUint16) ((input >> 10)+0xd7c0);
-            *output++ = (wxUint16) ((input&0x3ff)+0xdc00);
+            *output = (wxUint16) ((input&0x3ff)+0xdc00);
         }
         return 2;
     }
@@ -181,7 +121,7 @@ static size_t decode_utf16(const wxUint16* input, wxUint32& output)
         output = *input;
         return 1;
     }
-    else if ((input[1]<0xdc00) || (input[1]>=0xdfff))
+    else if ((input[1]<0xdc00) || (input[1]>0xdfff))
     {
         output = *input;
         return (size_t)-1;
@@ -198,47 +138,9 @@ static size_t decode_utf16(const wxUint16* input, wxUint32& output)
 // wxMBConv
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-#define IGNORE_LIBC 0
-
 wxMBConv::~wxMBConv()
 {
-    // nothing to do here
-}
-
-size_t wxMBConv::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
-{
-#if IGNORE_LIBC
-    if (buf)
-    {
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < strlen( psz )+1; i++)
-            buf[i] = (wchar_t) psz[i];
-        return strlen( psz );
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        return strlen( psz );
-    }
-#else
-    return wxMB2WC(buf, psz, n);
-#endif
-}
-
-size_t wxMBConv::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
-{
-#if IGNORE_LIBC
-    if (buf)
-    {
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < wxStrlen( psz )+1; i++)
-            buf[i] = (char) psz[i];
-        return wxStrlen( psz );
-    }
-    else
-    {
-        return wxStrlen( psz );
-    }
-#else
-    return wxWC2MB(buf, psz, n);
-#endif
+    // nothing to do here (necessary for Darwin linking probably)
 }
 
 const wxWCharBuffer wxMBConv::cMB2WC(const char *psz) const
@@ -251,9 +153,11 @@ const wxWCharBuffer wxMBConv::cMB2WC(const char *psz) const
         {
             // now do the actual conversion
             wxWCharBuffer buf(nLen);
-            MB2WC(buf.data(), psz, nLen + 1); // with the trailing NUL
-
-            return buf;
+            nLen = MB2WC(buf.data(), psz, nLen + 1); // with the trailing NULL
+            if ( nLen != (size_t)-1 )
+            {
+                return buf;
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -270,9 +174,11 @@ const wxCharBuffer wxMBConv::cWC2MB(const wchar_t *pwz) const
         if ( nLen != (size_t)-1 )
         {
             wxCharBuffer buf(nLen+3);       // space for a wxUint32 trailing zero
-            WC2MB(buf.data(), pwz, nLen + 4);
-
-            return buf;
+            nLen = WC2MB(buf.data(), pwz, nLen + 4);
+            if ( nLen != (size_t)-1 )
+            {
+                return buf;
+            }
         }
     }
 
@@ -281,52 +187,402 @@ const wxCharBuffer wxMBConv::cWC2MB(const wchar_t *pwz) const
     return buf;
 }
 
+const wxWCharBuffer wxMBConv::cMB2WC(const char *szString, size_t nStringLen, size_t* pOutSize) const
+{
+    wxASSERT(pOutSize != NULL);
+
+    const char* szEnd = szString + nStringLen + 1;
+    const char* szPos = szString;
+    const char* szStart = szPos;
+
+    size_t nActualLength = 0;
+    size_t nCurrentSize = nStringLen; //try normal size first (should never resize?)
+
+    wxWCharBuffer theBuffer(nCurrentSize);
+
+    //Convert the string until the length() is reached, continuing the
+    //loop every time a null character is reached
+    while(szPos != szEnd)
+    {
+        wxASSERT(szPos < szEnd); //something is _really_ screwed up if this rings true
+
+        //Get the length of the current (sub)string
+        size_t nLen = MB2WC(NULL, szPos, 0);
+
+        //Invalid conversion?
+        if( nLen == (size_t)-1 )
+        {
+            *pOutSize = 0;
+            theBuffer.data()[0u] = wxT('\0');
+            return theBuffer;
+        }
+
+
+        //Increase the actual length (+1 for current null character)
+        nActualLength += nLen + 1;
+
+        //if buffer too big, realloc the buffer
+        if (nActualLength > (nCurrentSize+1))
+        {
+            wxWCharBuffer theNewBuffer(nCurrentSize << 1);
+            memcpy(theNewBuffer.data(), theBuffer.data(), nCurrentSize * sizeof(wchar_t));
+            theBuffer = theNewBuffer;
+            nCurrentSize <<= 1;
+        }
+
+        //Convert the current (sub)string
+        if ( MB2WC(&theBuffer.data()[szPos - szStart], szPos, nLen + 1) == (size_t)-1 )
+        {
+            *pOutSize = 0;
+            theBuffer.data()[0u] = wxT('\0');
+            return theBuffer;
+        }
+
+        //Increment to next (sub)string
+        //Note that we have to use strlen instead of nLen here
+        //because XX2XX gives us the size of the output buffer,
+        //which is not necessarily the length of the string
+        szPos += strlen(szPos) + 1;
+    }
+
+    //success - return actual length and the buffer
+    *pOutSize = nActualLength;
+    return theBuffer;
+}
+
+const wxCharBuffer wxMBConv::cWC2MB(const wchar_t *szString, size_t nStringLen, size_t* pOutSize) const
+{
+    wxASSERT(pOutSize != NULL);
+
+    const wchar_t* szEnd = szString + nStringLen + 1;
+    const wchar_t* szPos = szString;
+    const wchar_t* szStart = szPos;
+
+    size_t nActualLength = 0;
+    size_t nCurrentSize = nStringLen << 2; //try * 4 first
+
+    wxCharBuffer theBuffer(nCurrentSize);
+
+    //Convert the string until the length() is reached, continuing the
+    //loop every time a null character is reached
+    while(szPos != szEnd)
+    {
+        wxASSERT(szPos < szEnd); //something is _really_ screwed up if this rings true
+
+        //Get the length of the current (sub)string
+        size_t nLen = WC2MB(NULL, szPos, 0);
+
+        //Invalid conversion?
+        if( nLen == (size_t)-1 )
+        {
+            *pOutSize = 0;
+            theBuffer.data()[0u] = wxT('\0');
+            return theBuffer;
+        }
+
+        //Increase the actual length (+1 for current null character)
+        nActualLength += nLen + 1;
+
+        //if buffer too big, realloc the buffer
+        if (nActualLength > (nCurrentSize+1))
+        {
+            wxCharBuffer theNewBuffer(nCurrentSize << 1);
+            memcpy(theNewBuffer.data(), theBuffer.data(), nCurrentSize);
+            theBuffer = theNewBuffer;
+            nCurrentSize <<= 1;
+        }
+
+        //Convert the current (sub)string
+        if(WC2MB(&theBuffer.data()[szPos - szStart], szPos, nLen + 1) == (size_t)-1 )
+        {
+            *pOutSize = 0;
+            theBuffer.data()[0u] = wxT('\0');
+            return theBuffer;
+        }
+
+        //Increment to next (sub)string
+        //Note that we have to use wxWcslen instead of nLen here
+        //because XX2XX gives us the size of the output buffer,
+        //which is not necessarily the length of the string
+        szPos += wxWcslen(szPos) + 1;
+    }
+
+    //success - return actual length and the buffer
+    *pOutSize = nActualLength;
+    return theBuffer;
+}
+
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// UTF-7
+// wxMBConvLibc
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConvUTF7) wxConvUTF7;
+size_t wxMBConvLibc::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
+{
+    return wxMB2WC(buf, psz, n);
+}
+
+size_t wxMBConvLibc::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
+{
+    return wxWC2MB(buf, psz, n);
+}
+
+#ifdef __UNIX__
+
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// wxConvBrokenFileNames
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+wxConvBrokenFileNames::wxConvBrokenFileNames(const wxChar *charset)
+{
+    if ( !charset || wxStricmp(charset, _T("UTF-8")) == 0
+                  || wxStricmp(charset, _T("UTF8")) == 0  )
+        m_conv = new wxMBConvUTF8(wxMBConvUTF8::MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_OCTAL);
+    else
+        m_conv = new wxCSConv(charset);
+}
+
+size_t
+wxConvBrokenFileNames::MB2WC(wchar_t *outputBuf,
+                             const char *psz,
+                             size_t outputSize) const
+{
+    return m_conv->MB2WC( outputBuf, psz, outputSize );
+}
+
+size_t
+wxConvBrokenFileNames::WC2MB(char *outputBuf,
+                             const wchar_t *psz,
+                             size_t outputSize) const
+{
+    return m_conv->WC2MB( outputBuf, psz, outputSize );
+}
 
-#if 0
-static char utf7_setD[]="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
-                        "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
-                        "0123456789'(),-./:?";
-static char utf7_setO[]="!\"#$%&*;<=>@[]^_`{|}";
-static char utf7_setB[]="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
-                        "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
-                        "0123456789+/";
 #endif
 
-// TODO: write actual implementations of UTF-7 here
-size_t wxMBConvUTF7::MB2WC(wchar_t * WXUNUSED(buf),
-                           const char * WXUNUSED(psz),
-                           size_t WXUNUSED(n)) const
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// UTF-7
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+// Implementation (C) 2004 Fredrik Roubert
+
+//
+// BASE64 decoding table
+//
+static const unsigned char utf7unb64[] =
 {
-  return 0;
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x3e, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0x3f,
+    0x34, 0x35, 0x36, 0x37, 0x38, 0x39, 0x3a, 0x3b,
+    0x3c, 0x3d, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06,
+    0x07, 0x08, 0x09, 0x0a, 0x0b, 0x0c, 0x0d, 0x0e,
+    0x0f, 0x10, 0x11, 0x12, 0x13, 0x14, 0x15, 0x16,
+    0x17, 0x18, 0x19, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0x1a, 0x1b, 0x1c, 0x1d, 0x1e, 0x1f, 0x20,
+    0x21, 0x22, 0x23, 0x24, 0x25, 0x26, 0x27, 0x28,
+    0x29, 0x2a, 0x2b, 0x2c, 0x2d, 0x2e, 0x2f, 0x30,
+    0x31, 0x32, 0x33, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
+    0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff
+};
+
+size_t wxMBConvUTF7::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
+{
+    size_t len = 0;
+
+    while (*psz && ((!buf) || (len < n)))
+    {
+        unsigned char cc = *psz++;
+        if (cc != '+')
+        {
+            // plain ASCII char
+            if (buf)
+                *buf++ = cc;
+            len++;
+        }
+        else if (*psz == '-')
+        {
+            // encoded plus sign
+            if (buf)
+                *buf++ = cc;
+            len++;
+            psz++;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            // BASE64 encoded string
+            bool lsb;
+            unsigned char c;
+            unsigned int d, l;
+            for (lsb = false, d = 0, l = 0;
+                (cc = utf7unb64[(unsigned char)*psz]) != 0xff; psz++)
+            {
+                d <<= 6;
+                d += cc;
+                for (l += 6; l >= 8; lsb = !lsb)
+                {
+                    c = (unsigned char)((d >> (l -= 8)) % 256);
+                    if (lsb)
+                    {
+                        if (buf)
+                            *buf++ |= c;
+                        len ++;
+                    }
+                    else
+                        if (buf)
+                            *buf = (wchar_t)(c << 8);
+                }
+            }
+            if (*psz == '-')
+                psz++;
+        }
+    }
+    if (buf && (len < n))
+        *buf = 0;
+    return len;
 }
 
-size_t wxMBConvUTF7::WC2MB(char * WXUNUSED(buf),
-                           const wchar_t * WXUNUSED(psz),
-                           size_t WXUNUSED(n)) const
+//
+// BASE64 encoding table
+//
+static const unsigned char utf7enb64[] =
+{
+    'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H',
+    'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P',
+    'Q', 'R', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X',
+    'Y', 'Z', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f',
+    'g', 'h', 'i', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n',
+    'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v',
+    'w', 'x', 'y', 'z', '0', '1', '2', '3',
+    '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', '+', '/'
+};
+
+//
+// UTF-7 encoding table
+//
+// 0 - Set D (directly encoded characters)
+// 1 - Set O (optional direct characters)
+// 2 - whitespace characters (optional)
+// 3 - special characters
+//
+static const unsigned char utf7encode[128] =
+{
+    3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 3,
+    3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3,
+    2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 3,
+    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,
+    1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1,
+    1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,
+    0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3
+};
+
+size_t wxMBConvUTF7::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
 {
-  return 0;
+
+
+    size_t len = 0;
+
+    while (*psz && ((!buf) || (len < n)))
+    {
+        wchar_t cc = *psz++;
+        if (cc < 0x80 && utf7encode[cc] < 1)
+        {
+            // plain ASCII char
+            if (buf)
+                *buf++ = (char)cc;
+            len++;
+        }
+#ifndef WC_UTF16
+        else if (((wxUint32)cc) > 0xffff)
+        {
+            // no surrogate pair generation (yet?)
+            return (size_t)-1;
+        }
+#endif
+        else
+        {
+            if (buf)
+                *buf++ = '+';
+            len++;
+            if (cc != '+')
+            {
+                // BASE64 encode string
+                unsigned int lsb, d, l;
+                for (d = 0, l = 0;; psz++)
+                {
+                    for (lsb = 0; lsb < 2; lsb ++)
+                    {
+                        d <<= 8;
+                        d += lsb ? cc & 0xff : (cc & 0xff00) >> 8;
+
+                        for (l += 8; l >= 6; )
+                        {
+                            l -= 6;
+                            if (buf)
+                                *buf++ = utf7enb64[(d >> l) % 64];
+                            len++;
+                        }
+                    }
+                    cc = *psz;
+                    if (!(cc) || (cc < 0x80 && utf7encode[cc] < 1))
+                        break;
+                }
+                if (l != 0)
+                {
+                    if (buf)
+                        *buf++ = utf7enb64[((d % 16) << (6 - l)) % 64];
+                    len++;
+                }
+            }
+            if (buf)
+                *buf++ = '-';
+            len++;
+        }
+    }
+    if (buf && (len < n))
+        *buf = 0;
+    return len;
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // UTF-8
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConvUTF8) wxConvUTF8;
-
 static wxUint32 utf8_max[]=
     { 0x7f, 0x7ff, 0xffff, 0x1fffff, 0x3ffffff, 0x7fffffff, 0xffffffff };
 
+// boundaries of the private use area we use to (temporarily) remap invalid
+// characters invalid in a UTF-8 encoded string
+const wxUint32 wxUnicodePUA = 0x100000;
+const wxUint32 wxUnicodePUAEnd = wxUnicodePUA + 256;
+
 size_t wxMBConvUTF8::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
 {
     size_t len = 0;
 
     while (*psz && ((!buf) || (len < n)))
     {
+        const char *opsz = psz;
+        bool invalid = false;
         unsigned char cc = *psz++, fc = cc;
         unsigned cnt;
         for (cnt = 0; fc & 0x80; cnt++)
@@ -337,6 +593,15 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF8::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
             if (buf)
                 *buf++ = cc;
             len++;
+
+            // escape the escape character for octal escapes
+            if ((m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_OCTAL)
+                    && cc == '\\' && (!buf || len < n))
+            {
+                if (buf)
+                    *buf++ = cc;
+                len++;
+            }
         }
         else
         {
@@ -344,7 +609,7 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF8::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
             if (!cnt)
             {
                 // invalid UTF-8 sequence
-                return (size_t)-1;
+                invalid = true;
             }
             else
             {
@@ -352,31 +617,93 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF8::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
                 wxUint32 res = cc & (0x3f >> cnt);
                 while (cnt--)
                 {
-                    cc = *psz++;
+                    cc = *psz;
                     if ((cc & 0xC0) != 0x80)
                     {
                         // invalid UTF-8 sequence
-                        return (size_t)-1;
+                        invalid = true;
+                        break;
                     }
+                    psz++;
                     res = (res << 6) | (cc & 0x3f);
                 }
-                if (res <= utf8_max[ocnt])
+                if (invalid || res <= utf8_max[ocnt])
                 {
                     // illegal UTF-8 encoding
-                    return (size_t)-1;
+                    invalid = true;
+                }
+                else if ((m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_PUA) &&
+                        res >= wxUnicodePUA && res < wxUnicodePUAEnd)
+                {
+                    // if one of our PUA characters turns up externally
+                    // it must also be treated as an illegal sequence
+                    // (a bit like you have to escape an escape character)
+                    invalid = true;
                 }
+                else
+                {
 #ifdef WC_UTF16
-                size_t pa = encode_utf16(res, buf);
-                if (pa == (size_t)-1)
-                  return (size_t)-1;
-                if (buf)
-                    buf += pa;
-                len += pa;
+                    // cast is ok because wchar_t == wxUuint16 if WC_UTF16
+                    size_t pa = encode_utf16(res, (wxUint16 *)buf);
+                    if (pa == (size_t)-1)
+                    {
+                        invalid = true;
+                    }
+                    else
+                    {
+                        if (buf)
+                            buf += pa;
+                        len += pa;
+                    }
 #else // !WC_UTF16
-                if (buf)
-                    *buf++ = res;
-                len++;
+                    if (buf)
+                        *buf++ = (wchar_t)res;
+                    len++;
 #endif // WC_UTF16/!WC_UTF16
+                }
+            }
+            if (invalid)
+            {
+                if (m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_PUA)
+                {
+                    while (opsz < psz && (!buf || len < n))
+                    {
+#ifdef WC_UTF16
+                        // cast is ok because wchar_t == wxUuint16 if WC_UTF16
+                        size_t pa = encode_utf16((unsigned char)*opsz + wxUnicodePUA, (wxUint16 *)buf);
+                        wxASSERT(pa != (size_t)-1);
+                        if (buf)
+                            buf += pa;
+                        opsz++;
+                        len += pa;
+#else
+                        if (buf)
+                            *buf++ = (wchar_t)(wxUnicodePUA + (unsigned char)*opsz);
+                        opsz++;
+                        len++;
+#endif
+                    }
+                }
+                else if (m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_OCTAL)
+                {
+                    while (opsz < psz && (!buf || len < n))
+                    {
+                        if ( buf && len + 3 < n )
+                        {
+                            unsigned char on = *opsz;
+                            *buf++ = L'\\';
+                            *buf++ = (wchar_t)( L'0' + on / 0100 );
+                            *buf++ = (wchar_t)( L'0' + (on % 0100) / 010 );
+                            *buf++ = (wchar_t)( L'0' + on % 010 );
+                        }
+                        opsz++;
+                        len += 4;
+                    }
+                }
+                else // MAP_INVALID_UTF8_NOT
+                {
+                    return (size_t)-1;
+                }
             }
         }
     }
@@ -385,6 +712,11 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF8::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
     return len;
 }
 
+static inline bool isoctal(wchar_t wch)
+{
+    return L'0' <= wch && wch <= L'7';
+}
+
 size_t wxMBConvUTF8::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
 {
     size_t len = 0;
@@ -393,64 +725,88 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF8::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
     {
         wxUint32 cc;
 #ifdef WC_UTF16
-        size_t pa = decode_utf16(psz, cc);
+        // cast is ok for WC_UTF16
+        size_t pa = decode_utf16((const wxUint16 *)psz, cc);
         psz += (pa == (size_t)-1) ? 1 : pa;
 #else
         cc=(*psz++) & 0x7fffffff;
 #endif
-        unsigned cnt;
-        for (cnt = 0; cc > utf8_max[cnt]; cnt++) {}
-        if (!cnt)
+
+        if ( (m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_PUA)
+                && cc >= wxUnicodePUA && cc < wxUnicodePUAEnd )
+        {
+            if (buf)
+                *buf++ = (char)(cc - wxUnicodePUA);
+            len++;
+        }
+        else if ( (m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_OCTAL)
+                    && cc == L'\\' && psz[0] == L'\\' )
         {
-            // plain ASCII char
             if (buf)
-                *buf++ = (char) cc;
+                *buf++ = (char)cc;
+            psz++;
             len++;
         }
+        else if ( (m_options & MAP_INVALID_UTF8_TO_OCTAL) &&
+                    cc == L'\\' &&
+                        isoctal(psz[0]) && isoctal(psz[1]) && isoctal(psz[2]) )
+        {
+            if (buf)
+            {
+                *buf++ = (char) ((psz[0] - L'0')*0100 +
+                                 (psz[1] - L'0')*010 +
+                                 (psz[2] - L'0'));
+            }
 
+            psz += 3;
+            len++;
+        }
         else
         {
-            len += cnt + 1;
-            if (buf)
+            unsigned cnt;
+            for (cnt = 0; cc > utf8_max[cnt]; cnt++) {}
+            if (!cnt)
             {
-                *buf++ = (char) ((-128 >> cnt) | ((cc >> (cnt * 6)) & (0x3f >> cnt)));
-                while (cnt--)
-                    *buf++ = (char) (0x80 | ((cc >> (cnt * 6)) & 0x3f));
+                // plain ASCII char
+                if (buf)
+                    *buf++ = (char) cc;
+                len++;
+            }
+
+            else
+            {
+                len += cnt + 1;
+                if (buf)
+                {
+                    *buf++ = (char) ((-128 >> cnt) | ((cc >> (cnt * 6)) & (0x3f >> cnt)));
+                    while (cnt--)
+                        *buf++ = (char) (0x80 | ((cc >> (cnt * 6)) & 0x3f));
+                }
             }
         }
     }
 
-    if (buf && (len<n)) *buf = 0;
-
-    return len;
-}
-
-
+    if (buf && (len<n))
+        *buf = 0;
 
+    return len;
+}
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // UTF-16
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
-#define wxMBConvUTF16straight wxMBConvUTF16BE
-#define wxMBConvUTF16swap     wxMBConvUTF16LE
+    #define wxMBConvUTF16straight wxMBConvUTF16BE
+    #define wxMBConvUTF16swap     wxMBConvUTF16LE
 #else
-#define wxMBConvUTF16swap     wxMBConvUTF16BE
-#define wxMBConvUTF16straight wxMBConvUTF16LE
+    #define wxMBConvUTF16swap     wxMBConvUTF16BE
+    #define wxMBConvUTF16straight wxMBConvUTF16LE
 #endif
 
 
-WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConvUTF16LE) wxConvUTF16LE;
-WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConvUTF16BE) wxConvUTF16BE;
-
-
-
-
-
 #ifdef WC_UTF16
 
-
 // copy 16bit MB to 16bit String
 size_t wxMBConvUTF16straight::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
 {
@@ -550,7 +906,7 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF16straight::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) con
             return pa;
 
         if (buf)
-            *buf++ = cc;
+            *buf++ = (wchar_t)cc;
         len++;
         psz += pa * sizeof(wxUint16);
     }
@@ -576,7 +932,7 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF16straight::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) con
         if (buf)
         {
             *(wxUint16*)buf = cc[0];
-            buf += sizeof(wxUint16); 
+            buf += sizeof(wxUint16);
             if (pa > 1)
             {
                 *(wxUint16*)buf = cc[1];
@@ -610,7 +966,7 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF16swap::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
             return pa;
 
         if (buf)
-            *buf++ = cc;
+            *buf++ = (wchar_t)cc;
 
         len++;
         psz += pa * sizeof(wxUint16);
@@ -712,7 +1068,8 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32straight::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) con
     {
         wxUint32 cc;
 
-        size_t pa=decode_utf16(psz, cc);
+        // cast is ok for WC_UTF16
+        size_t pa = decode_utf16((const wxUint16 *)psz, cc);
         if (pa == (size_t)-1)
             return pa;
 
@@ -724,7 +1081,9 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32straight::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) con
         len += sizeof(wxUint32);
         psz += pa;
     }
-    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))   *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
+
+    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))
+        *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -758,7 +1117,9 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
         len += pa;
         psz += sizeof(wxUint32);
     }
-    if (buf && len<n)   *buf=0;
+
+    if (buf && len<n)
+        *buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -773,7 +1134,8 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
     {
         char cc[4];
 
-        size_t pa=decode_utf16(psz, *(wxUint32*)cc);
+        // cast is ok for WC_UTF16
+        size_t pa=decode_utf16((const wxUint16 *)psz, *(wxUint32*)cc);
         if (pa == (size_t)-1)
             return pa;
 
@@ -787,7 +1149,9 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
         len += sizeof(wxUint32);
         psz += pa;
     }
-    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))   *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
+
+    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))
+        *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -803,11 +1167,13 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32straight::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) con
     while (*(wxUint32*)psz && (!buf || len < n))
     {
         if (buf)
-            *buf++ = *(wxUint32*)psz;
+            *buf++ = (wchar_t)(*(wxUint32*)psz);
         len++;
         psz += sizeof(wxUint32);
     }
-    if (buf && len<n)   *buf=0;
+
+    if (buf && len<n)
+        *buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -830,7 +1196,8 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32straight::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) con
         psz++;
     }
 
-    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))   *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
+    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))
+        *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -854,7 +1221,9 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
         len++;
         psz += sizeof(wxUint32);
     }
-    if (buf && len<n)   *buf=0;
+
+    if (buf && len<n)
+        *buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -877,7 +1246,9 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
         len += sizeof(wxUint32);
         psz++;
     }
-    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))   *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
+
+    if (buf && len<=n-sizeof(wxUint32))
+        *(wxUint32*)buf=0;
 
     return len;
 }
@@ -892,12 +1263,13 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
 
 #ifdef HAVE_ICONV
 
-// VS: glibc 2.1.3 is broken in that iconv() conversion to/from UCS4 fails with E2BIG
-//     if output buffer is _exactly_ as big as needed. Such case is (unless there's
-//     yet another bug in glibc) the only case when iconv() returns with (size_t)-1
-//     (which means error) and says there are 0 bytes left in the input buffer --
-//     when _real_ error occurs, bytes-left-in-input buffer is non-zero. Hence,
-//     this alternative test for iconv() failure.
+// VS: glibc 2.1.3 is broken in that iconv() conversion to/from UCS4 fails with
+//     E2BIG if output buffer is _exactly_ as big as needed. Such case is
+//     (unless there's yet another bug in glibc) the only case when iconv()
+//     returns with (size_t)-1 (which means error) and says there are 0 bytes
+//     left in the input buffer -- when _real_ error occurs,
+//     bytes-left-in-input buffer is non-zero. Hence, this alternative test for
+//     iconv() failure.
 //     [This bug does not appear in glibc 2.2.]
 #if defined(__GLIBC__) && __GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ <= 1
 #define ICONV_FAILED(cres, bufLeft) ((cres == (size_t)-1) && \
@@ -908,6 +1280,19 @@ size_t wxMBConvUTF32swap::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
 
 #define ICONV_CHAR_CAST(x)  ((ICONV_CONST char **)(x))
 
+#define ICONV_T_INVALID ((iconv_t)-1)
+
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+    #define WC_BSWAP    wxUINT32_SWAP_ALWAYS
+    #define WC_ENC      wxFONTENCODING_UTF32
+#elif SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 2
+    #define WC_BSWAP    wxUINT16_SWAP_ALWAYS
+    #define WC_ENC      wxFONTENCODING_UTF16
+#else // sizeof(wchar_t) != 2 nor 4
+    // does this ever happen?
+    #error "Unknown sizeof(wchar_t): please report this to wx-dev@lists.wxwindows.org"
+#endif
+
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // wxMBConv_iconv: encapsulates an iconv character set
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -918,128 +1303,181 @@ public:
     wxMBConv_iconv(const wxChar *name);
     virtual ~wxMBConv_iconv();
 
-    virtual size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n);
-    virtual size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n);
+    virtual size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const;
+    virtual size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const;
 
     bool IsOk() const
-        { return (m2w != (iconv_t)-1) && (w2m != (iconv_t)-1); }
+        { return (m2w != ICONV_T_INVALID) && (w2m != ICONV_T_INVALID); }
 
 protected:
     // the iconv handlers used to translate from multibyte to wide char and in
     // the other direction
     iconv_t m2w,
             w2m;
+#if wxUSE_THREADS
+    // guards access to m2w and w2m objects
+    wxMutex m_iconvMutex;
+#endif
 
 private:
     // the name (for iconv_open()) of a wide char charset -- if none is
     // available on this machine, it will remain NULL
-    static const char *ms_wcCharsetName;
+    static wxString ms_wcCharsetName;
 
     // true if the wide char encoding we use (i.e. ms_wcCharsetName) has
     // different endian-ness than the native one
     static bool ms_wcNeedsSwap;
 };
 
-const char *wxMBConv_iconv::ms_wcCharsetName = NULL;
+// make the constructor available for unit testing
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxMBConv* new_wxMBConv_iconv( const wxChar* name )
+{
+    wxMBConv_iconv* result = new wxMBConv_iconv( name );
+    if ( !result->IsOk() )
+    {
+        delete result;
+        return 0;
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
+wxString wxMBConv_iconv::ms_wcCharsetName;
 bool wxMBConv_iconv::ms_wcNeedsSwap = false;
 
 wxMBConv_iconv::wxMBConv_iconv(const wxChar *name)
 {
-    // Do it the hard way
-    char cname[100];
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < wxStrlen(name)+1; i++)
-        cname[i] = (char) name[i];
+    // iconv operates with chars, not wxChars, but luckily it uses only ASCII
+    // names for the charsets
+    const wxCharBuffer cname(wxString(name).ToAscii());
 
     // check for charset that represents wchar_t:
-    if (ms_wcCharsetName == NULL)
+    if ( ms_wcCharsetName.empty() )
     {
-        ms_wcNeedsSwap = false;
+        wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV, _T("Looking for wide char codeset:"));
 
-        // try charset with explicit bytesex info (e.g. "UCS-4LE"):
-        ms_wcCharsetName = WC_NAME_BEST;
-        m2w = iconv_open(ms_wcCharsetName, cname);
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+        const wxChar **names = wxFontMapperBase::GetAllEncodingNames(WC_ENC);
+#else // !wxUSE_FONTMAP
+        static const wxChar *names[] =
+        {
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+            _T("UCS-4"),
+#elif SIZEOF_WCHAR_T = 2
+            _T("UCS-2"),
+#endif
+            NULL
+        };
+#endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP/!wxUSE_FONTMAP
 
-        if (m2w == (iconv_t)-1)
+        for ( ; *names && ms_wcCharsetName.empty(); ++names )
         {
-            // try charset w/o bytesex info (e.g. "UCS4")
-            // and check for bytesex ourselves:
-            ms_wcCharsetName = WC_NAME;
-            m2w = iconv_open(ms_wcCharsetName, cname);
+            const wxString nameCS(*names);
 
-            // last bet, try if it knows WCHAR_T pseudo-charset
-            if (m2w == (iconv_t)-1)
-            {
-                ms_wcCharsetName = "WCHAR_T";
-                m2w = iconv_open(ms_wcCharsetName, cname);
-            }
+            // first try charset with explicit bytesex info (e.g. "UCS-4LE"):
+            wxString nameXE(nameCS);
+            #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
+                nameXE += _T("BE");
+            #else // little endian
+                nameXE += _T("LE");
+            #endif
 
-            if (m2w != (iconv_t)-1)
+            wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV, _T("  trying charset \"%s\""),
+                       nameXE.c_str());
+
+            m2w = iconv_open(nameXE.ToAscii(), cname);
+            if ( m2w == ICONV_T_INVALID )
             {
-                char    buf[2], *bufPtr;
-                wchar_t wbuf[2], *wbufPtr;
-                size_t  insz, outsz;
-                size_t  res;
-
-                buf[0] = 'A';
-                buf[1] = 0;
-                wbuf[0] = 0;
-                insz = 2;
-                outsz = SIZEOF_WCHAR_T * 2;
-                wbufPtr = wbuf;
-                bufPtr = buf;
-
-                res = iconv(m2w, ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&bufPtr), &insz,
-                            (char**)&wbufPtr, &outsz);
-
-                if (ICONV_FAILED(res, insz))
-                {
-                    ms_wcCharsetName = NULL;
-                    wxLogLastError(wxT("iconv"));
-                    wxLogError(_("Conversion to charset '%s' doesn't work."), name);
-                }
-                else
+                // try charset w/o bytesex info (e.g. "UCS4")
+                wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV, _T("  trying charset \"%s\""),
+                           nameCS.c_str());
+                m2w = iconv_open(nameCS.ToAscii(), cname);
+
+                // and check for bytesex ourselves:
+                if ( m2w != ICONV_T_INVALID )
                 {
-                    ms_wcNeedsSwap = wbuf[0] != (wchar_t)buf[0];
+                    char    buf[2], *bufPtr;
+                    wchar_t wbuf[2], *wbufPtr;
+                    size_t  insz, outsz;
+                    size_t  res;
+
+                    buf[0] = 'A';
+                    buf[1] = 0;
+                    wbuf[0] = 0;
+                    insz = 2;
+                    outsz = SIZEOF_WCHAR_T * 2;
+                    wbufPtr = wbuf;
+                    bufPtr = buf;
+
+                    res = iconv(m2w, ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&bufPtr), &insz,
+                                (char**)&wbufPtr, &outsz);
+
+                    if (ICONV_FAILED(res, insz))
+                    {
+                        wxLogLastError(wxT("iconv"));
+                        wxLogError(_("Conversion to charset '%s' doesn't work."),
+                                   nameCS.c_str());
+                    }
+                    else // ok, can convert to this encoding, remember it
+                    {
+                        ms_wcCharsetName = nameCS;
+                        ms_wcNeedsSwap = wbuf[0] != (wchar_t)buf[0];
+                    }
                 }
             }
-            else
+            else // use charset not requiring byte swapping
             {
-                ms_wcCharsetName = NULL;
-
-                // VS: we must not output an error here, since wxWindows will safely
-                //     fall back to using wxEncodingConverter.
-                wxLogTrace(wxT("strconv"), wxT("Impossible to convert to/from charset '%s' with iconv, falling back to wxEncodingConverter."), name);
-                //wxLogError(
+                ms_wcCharsetName = nameXE;
             }
         }
-        wxLogTrace(wxT("strconv"), wxT("wchar_t charset is '%s', needs swap: %i"), ms_wcCharsetName, ms_wcNeedsSwap);
+
+        wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV,
+                   wxT("iconv wchar_t charset is \"%s\"%s"),
+                   ms_wcCharsetName.empty() ? _T("<none>")
+                                            : ms_wcCharsetName.c_str(),
+                   ms_wcNeedsSwap ? _T(" (needs swap)")
+                                  : _T(""));
     }
     else // we already have ms_wcCharsetName
     {
-        m2w = iconv_open(ms_wcCharsetName, cname);
+        m2w = iconv_open(ms_wcCharsetName.ToAscii(), cname);
     }
 
-    // NB: don't ever pass NULL to iconv_open(), it may crash!
-    if ( ms_wcCharsetName )
+    if ( ms_wcCharsetName.empty() )
     {
-        w2m = iconv_open( cname, ms_wcCharsetName);
+        w2m = ICONV_T_INVALID;
     }
     else
     {
-        w2m = (iconv_t)-1;
+        w2m = iconv_open(cname, ms_wcCharsetName.ToAscii());
+        if ( w2m == ICONV_T_INVALID )
+        {
+            wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV,
+                       wxT("\"%s\" -> \"%s\" works but not the converse!?"),
+                       ms_wcCharsetName.c_str(), cname.data());
+        }
     }
 }
 
 wxMBConv_iconv::~wxMBConv_iconv()
 {
-    if ( m2w != (iconv_t)-1 )
+    if ( m2w != ICONV_T_INVALID )
         iconv_close(m2w);
-    if ( w2m != (iconv_t)-1 )
+    if ( w2m != ICONV_T_INVALID )
         iconv_close(w2m);
 }
 
-size_t wxMBConv_iconv::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n)
+size_t wxMBConv_iconv::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
 {
+#if wxUSE_THREADS
+    // NB: iconv() is MT-safe, but each thread must use it's own iconv_t handle.
+    //     Unfortunately there is a couple of global wxCSConv objects such as
+    //     wxConvLocal that are used all over wx code, so we have to make sure
+    //     the handle is used by at most one thread at the time. Otherwise
+    //     only a few wx classes would be safe to use from non-main threads
+    //     as MB<->WC conversion would fail "randomly".
+    wxMutexLocker lock(wxConstCast(this, wxMBConv_iconv)->m_iconvMutex);
+#endif
+
     size_t inbuf = strlen(psz);
     size_t outbuf = n * SIZEOF_WCHAR_T;
     size_t res, cres;
@@ -1058,7 +1496,8 @@ size_t wxMBConv_iconv::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n)
         if (ms_wcNeedsSwap)
         {
             // convert to native endianness
-            WC_BSWAP(buf /* _not_ bufPtr */, res)
+            for ( unsigned i = 0; i < res; i++ )
+                buf[n] = WC_BSWAP(buf[i]);
         }
 
         // NB: iconv was given only strlen(psz) characters on input, and so
@@ -1081,153 +1520,843 @@ size_t wxMBConv_iconv::MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n)
                          ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&pszPtr), &inbuf,
                          (char**)&bufPtr, &outbuf );
 
-            res += 8-(outbuf/SIZEOF_WCHAR_T);
-        } while ((cres==(size_t)-1) && (errno==E2BIG));
+            res += 8-(outbuf/SIZEOF_WCHAR_T);
+        } while ((cres==(size_t)-1) && (errno==E2BIG));
+    }
+
+    if (ICONV_FAILED(cres, inbuf))
+    {
+        //VS: it is ok if iconv fails, hence trace only
+        wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV, wxT("iconv failed: %s"), wxSysErrorMsg(wxSysErrorCode()));
+        return (size_t)-1;
+    }
+
+    return res;
+}
+
+size_t wxMBConv_iconv::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
+{
+#if wxUSE_THREADS
+    // NB: explained in MB2WC
+    wxMutexLocker lock(wxConstCast(this, wxMBConv_iconv)->m_iconvMutex);
+#endif
+
+    size_t inlen = wxWcslen(psz);
+    size_t inbuf = inlen * SIZEOF_WCHAR_T;
+    size_t outbuf = n;
+    size_t res, cres;
+
+    wchar_t *tmpbuf = 0;
+
+    if (ms_wcNeedsSwap)
+    {
+        // need to copy to temp buffer to switch endianness
+        // (doing WC_BSWAP twice on the original buffer won't help, as it
+        //  could be in read-only memory, or be accessed in some other thread)
+        tmpbuf = (wchar_t *)malloc(inbuf + SIZEOF_WCHAR_T);
+        for ( size_t i = 0; i < inlen; i++ )
+            tmpbuf[n] = WC_BSWAP(psz[i]);
+        tmpbuf[inlen] = L'\0';
+        psz = tmpbuf;
+    }
+
+    if (buf)
+    {
+        // have destination buffer, convert there
+        cres = iconv( w2m, ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&psz), &inbuf, &buf, &outbuf );
+
+        res = n-outbuf;
+
+        // NB: iconv was given only wcslen(psz) characters on input, and so
+        //     it couldn't convert the trailing zero. Let's do it ourselves
+        //     if there's some room left for it in the output buffer.
+        if (res < n)
+            buf[0] = 0;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        // no destination buffer... convert using temp buffer
+        // to calculate destination buffer requirement
+        char tbuf[16];
+        res = 0;
+        do {
+            buf = tbuf; outbuf = 16;
+
+            cres = iconv( w2m, ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&psz), &inbuf, &buf, &outbuf );
+
+            res += 16 - outbuf;
+        } while ((cres==(size_t)-1) && (errno==E2BIG));
+    }
+
+    if (ms_wcNeedsSwap)
+    {
+        free(tmpbuf);
+    }
+
+    if (ICONV_FAILED(cres, inbuf))
+    {
+        wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV, wxT("iconv failed: %s"), wxSysErrorMsg(wxSysErrorCode()));
+        return (size_t)-1;
+    }
+
+    return res;
+}
+
+#endif // HAVE_ICONV
+
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Win32 conversion classes
+// ============================================================================
+
+#ifdef wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
+
+// from utils.cpp
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+extern WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxCharsetToCodepage(const wxChar *charset);
+extern WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxEncodingToCodepage(wxFontEncoding encoding);
+#endif
+
+class wxMBConv_win32 : public wxMBConv
+{
+public:
+    wxMBConv_win32()
+    {
+        m_CodePage = CP_ACP;
+    }
+
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+    wxMBConv_win32(const wxChar* name)
+    {
+        m_CodePage = wxCharsetToCodepage(name);
+    }
+
+    wxMBConv_win32(wxFontEncoding encoding)
+    {
+        m_CodePage = wxEncodingToCodepage(encoding);
+    }
+#endif
+
+    size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
+    {
+        // note that we have to use MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS flag as it without it
+        // the behaviour is not compatible with the Unix version (using iconv)
+        // and break the library itself, e.g. wxTextInputStream::NextChar()
+        // wouldn't work if reading an incomplete MB char didn't result in an
+        // error
+        //
+        // note however that using MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS with CP_UTF7 results in
+        // an error (tested under Windows Server 2003) and apparently it is
+        // done on purpose, i.e. the function accepts any input in this case
+        // and although I'd prefer to return error on ill-formed output, our
+        // own wxMBConvUTF7 doesn't detect errors (e.g. lone "+" which is
+        // explicitly ill-formed according to RFC 2152) neither so we don't
+        // even have any fallback here...
+        int flags = m_CodePage == CP_UTF7 ? 0 : MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS;
+
+        const size_t len = ::MultiByteToWideChar
+                             (
+                                m_CodePage,     // code page
+                                flags,          // flags: fall on error
+                                psz,            // input string
+                                -1,             // its length (NUL-terminated)
+                                buf,            // output string
+                                buf ? n : 0     // size of output buffer
+                             );
+
+        // note that it returns count of written chars for buf != NULL and size
+        // of the needed buffer for buf == NULL so in either case the length of
+        // the string (which never includes the terminating NUL) is one less
+        return len ? len - 1 : (size_t)-1;
+    }
+
+    size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *pwz, size_t n) const
+    {
+        /*
+            we have a problem here: by default, WideCharToMultiByte() may
+            replace characters unrepresentable in the target code page with bad
+            quality approximations such as turning "1/2" symbol (U+00BD) into
+            "1" for the code pages which don't have it and we, obviously, want
+            to avoid this at any price
+
+            the trouble is that this function does it _silently_, i.e. it won't
+            even tell us whether it did or not... Win98/2000 and higher provide
+            WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS but it doesn't work for the older systems and
+            we have to resort to a round trip, i.e. check that converting back
+            results in the same string -- this is, of course, expensive but
+            otherwise we simply can't be sure to not garble the data.
+         */
+
+        // determine if we can rely on WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS: according to MSDN
+        // it doesn't work with CJK encodings (which we test for rather roughly
+        // here...) nor with UTF-7/8 nor, of course, with Windows versions not
+        // supporting it
+        BOOL usedDef wxDUMMY_INITIALIZE(false);
+        BOOL *pUsedDef;
+        int flags;
+        if ( CanUseNoBestFit() && m_CodePage < 50000 )
+        {
+            // it's our lucky day
+            flags = WC_NO_BEST_FIT_CHARS;
+            pUsedDef = &usedDef;
+        }
+        else // old system or unsupported encoding
+        {
+            flags = 0;
+            pUsedDef = NULL;
+        }
+
+        const size_t len = ::WideCharToMultiByte
+                             (
+                                m_CodePage,     // code page
+                                flags,          // either none or no best fit
+                                pwz,            // input string
+                                -1,             // it is (wide) NUL-terminated
+                                buf,            // output buffer
+                                buf ? n : 0,    // and its size
+                                NULL,           // default "replacement" char
+                                pUsedDef        // [out] was it used?
+                             );
+
+        if ( !len )
+        {
+            // function totally failed
+            return (size_t)-1;
+        }
+
+        // if we were really converting, check if we succeeded
+        if ( buf )
+        {
+            if ( flags )
+            {
+                // check if the conversion failed, i.e. if any replacements
+                // were done
+                if ( usedDef )
+                    return (size_t)-1;
+            }
+            else // we must resort to double tripping...
+            {
+                wxWCharBuffer wcBuf(n);
+                if ( MB2WC(wcBuf.data(), buf, n) == (size_t)-1 ||
+                        wcscmp(wcBuf, pwz) != 0 )
+                {
+                    // we didn't obtain the same thing we started from, hence
+                    // the conversion was lossy and we consider that it failed
+                    return (size_t)-1;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        // see the comment above for the reason of "len - 1"
+        return len - 1;
+    }
+
+    bool IsOk() const { return m_CodePage != -1; }
+
+private:
+    static bool CanUseNoBestFit()
+    {
+        static int s_isWin98Or2k = -1;
+
+        if ( s_isWin98Or2k == -1 )
+        {
+            int verMaj, verMin;
+            switch ( wxGetOsVersion(&verMaj, &verMin) )
+            {
+                case wxWIN95:
+                    s_isWin98Or2k = verMaj >= 4 && verMin >= 10;
+                    break;
+
+                case wxWINDOWS_NT:
+                    s_isWin98Or2k = verMaj >= 5;
+                    break;
+
+                default:
+                    // unknown, be conseravtive by default
+                    s_isWin98Or2k = 0;
+            }
+
+            wxASSERT_MSG( s_isWin98Or2k != -1, _T("should be set above") );
+        }
+
+        return s_isWin98Or2k == 1;
+    }
+
+    long m_CodePage;
+};
+
+#endif // wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
+
+// ============================================================================
+// Cocoa conversion classes
+// ============================================================================
+
+#if defined(__WXCOCOA__)
+
+// RN:  There is no UTF-32 support in either Core Foundation or
+// Cocoa.  Strangely enough, internally Core Foundation uses
+// UTF 32 internally quite a bit - its just not public (yet).
+
+#include <CoreFoundation/CFString.h>
+#include <CoreFoundation/CFStringEncodingExt.h>
+
+CFStringEncoding wxCFStringEncFromFontEnc(wxFontEncoding encoding)
+{
+    CFStringEncoding enc = kCFStringEncodingInvalidId ;
+    if ( encoding == wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT )
+    {
+        enc = CFStringGetSystemEncoding();
+    }
+    else switch( encoding)
+    {
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin1 ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_2 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin2;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_3 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin3 ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_4 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin4;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_5 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatinCyrillic;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_6 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatinArabic;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_7 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatinGreek;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_8 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatinHebrew;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_9 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin5;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_10 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin6;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_11 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatinThai;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_13 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin7;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_14 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin8;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_15 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingISOLatin9;
+            break ;
+
+        case wxFONTENCODING_KOI8 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingKOI8_R;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_ALTERNATIVE : // MS-DOS CP866
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSRussian;
+            break ;
+
+//      case wxFONTENCODING_BULGARIAN :
+//          enc = ;
+//          break ;
+
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP437 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingDOSLatinUS ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP850 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSLatin1;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP852 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSLatin2;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP855 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSCyrillic;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP866 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingDOSRussian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP874 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSThai;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP932 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSJapanese;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP936 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingDOSChineseSimplif ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP949 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSKorean;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP950 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingDOSChineseTrad;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1250 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingWindowsLatin2;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1251 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingWindowsCyrillic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1252 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingWindowsLatin1 ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1253 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingWindowsGreek;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1254 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingWindowsLatin5;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1255 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingWindowsHebrew ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1256 :
+            enc =kCFStringEncodingWindowsArabic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_CP1257 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingWindowsBalticRim;
+            break ;
+//   This only really encodes to UTF7 (if that) evidently
+//        case wxFONTENCODING_UTF7 :
+//            enc = kCFStringEncodingNonLossyASCII ;
+//            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_UTF8 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingUTF8 ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_EUC_JP :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingEUC_JP;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_UTF16 :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingUnicode ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACROMAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacRoman ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACJAPANESE :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacJapanese ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACCHINESETRAD :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacChineseTrad ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACKOREAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacKorean ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACARABIC :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacArabic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACHEBREW :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacHebrew ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACGREEK :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacGreek ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACCYRILLIC :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacCyrillic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACDEVANAGARI :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacDevanagari ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACGURMUKHI :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacGurmukhi ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACGUJARATI :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacGujarati ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACORIYA :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacOriya ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACBENGALI :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacBengali ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACTAMIL :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacTamil ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACTELUGU :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacTelugu ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACKANNADA :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacKannada ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACMALAJALAM :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacMalayalam ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACSINHALESE :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacSinhalese ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACBURMESE :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacBurmese ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACKHMER :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacKhmer ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACTHAI :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacThai ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACLAOTIAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacLaotian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACGEORGIAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacGeorgian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACARMENIAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacArmenian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACCHINESESIMP :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacChineseSimp ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACTIBETAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacTibetan ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACMONGOLIAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacMongolian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACETHIOPIC :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacEthiopic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACCENTRALEUR :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacCentralEurRoman ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACVIATNAMESE :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacVietnamese ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACARABICEXT :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacExtArabic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACSYMBOL :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacSymbol ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACDINGBATS :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacDingbats ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACTURKISH :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacTurkish ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACCROATIAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacCroatian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACICELANDIC :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacIcelandic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACROMANIAN :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacRomanian ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACCELTIC :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacCeltic ;
+            break ;
+        case wxFONTENCODING_MACGAELIC :
+            enc = kCFStringEncodingMacGaelic ;
+            break ;
+//      case wxFONTENCODING_MACKEYBOARD :
+//          enc = kCFStringEncodingMacKeyboardGlyphs ;
+//          break ;
+        default :
+            // because gcc is picky
+            break ;
+    } ;
+    return enc ;
+}
+
+class wxMBConv_cocoa : public wxMBConv
+{
+public:
+    wxMBConv_cocoa()
+    {
+        Init(CFStringGetSystemEncoding()) ;
+    }
+
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+    wxMBConv_cocoa(const wxChar* name)
+    {
+        Init( wxCFStringEncFromFontEnc(wxFontMapperBase::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(name, false) ) ) ;
+    }
+#endif
+
+    wxMBConv_cocoa(wxFontEncoding encoding)
+    {
+        Init( wxCFStringEncFromFontEnc(encoding) );
+    }
+
+    ~wxMBConv_cocoa()
+    {
+    }
+
+    void Init( CFStringEncoding encoding)
+    {
+        m_encoding = encoding ;
+    }
+
+    size_t MB2WC(wchar_t * szOut, const char * szUnConv, size_t nOutSize) const
+    {
+        wxASSERT(szUnConv);
+
+        CFStringRef theString = CFStringCreateWithBytes (
+                                                NULL, //the allocator
+                                                (const UInt8*)szUnConv,
+                                                strlen(szUnConv),
+                                                m_encoding,
+                                                false //no BOM/external representation
+                                                );
+
+        wxASSERT(theString);
+
+        size_t nOutLength = CFStringGetLength(theString);
+
+        if (szOut == NULL)
+        {
+            CFRelease(theString);
+            return nOutLength;
+        }
+
+        CFRange theRange = { 0, nOutSize };
+
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        UniChar* szUniCharBuffer = new UniChar[nOutSize];
+#endif
+
+        CFStringGetCharacters(theString, theRange, szUniCharBuffer);
+
+        CFRelease(theString);
+
+        szUniCharBuffer[nOutLength] = '\0' ;
+
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        wxMBConvUTF16 converter ;
+        converter.MB2WC(szOut, (const char*)szUniCharBuffer , nOutSize ) ;
+        delete[] szUniCharBuffer;
+#endif
+
+        return nOutLength;
     }
 
-    if (ICONV_FAILED(cres, inbuf))
+    size_t WC2MB(char *szOut, const wchar_t *szUnConv, size_t nOutSize) const
     {
-        //VS: it is ok if iconv fails, hence trace only
-        wxLogTrace(wxT("strconv"), wxT("iconv failed: %s"), wxSysErrorMsg(wxSysErrorCode()));
-        return (size_t)-1;
-    }
+        wxASSERT(szUnConv);
 
-    return res;
-}
+        size_t nRealOutSize;
+        size_t nBufSize = wxWcslen(szUnConv);
+        UniChar* szUniBuffer = (UniChar*) szUnConv;
 
-size_t wxMBConv_iconv::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n)
-{
-    size_t inbuf = wxWcslen(psz) * SIZEOF_WCHAR_T;
-    size_t outbuf = n;
-    size_t res, cres;
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        wxMBConvUTF16 converter ;
+        nBufSize = converter.WC2MB( NULL , szUnConv , 0 );
+        szUniBuffer = new UniChar[ (nBufSize / sizeof(UniChar)) + 1] ;
+        converter.WC2MB( (char*) szUniBuffer , szUnConv, nBufSize + sizeof(UniChar)) ;
+        nBufSize /= sizeof(UniChar);
+#endif
 
-    wchar_t *tmpbuf = 0;
+        CFStringRef theString = CFStringCreateWithCharactersNoCopy(
+                                NULL, //allocator
+                                szUniBuffer,
+                                nBufSize,
+                                kCFAllocatorNull //deallocator - we want to deallocate it ourselves
+                            );
 
-    if (ms_wcNeedsSwap)
-    {
-        // need to copy to temp buffer to switch endianness
-        // this absolutely doesn't rock!
-        // (no, doing WC_BSWAP twice on the original buffer won't help, as it
-        //  could be in read-only memory, or be accessed in some other thread)
-        tmpbuf=(wchar_t*)malloc((inbuf+1)*SIZEOF_WCHAR_T);
-        memcpy(tmpbuf,psz,(inbuf+1)*SIZEOF_WCHAR_T);
-        WC_BSWAP(tmpbuf, inbuf)
-        psz=tmpbuf;
-    }
+        wxASSERT(theString);
 
-    if (buf)
-    {
-        // have destination buffer, convert there
-        cres = iconv( w2m, ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&psz), &inbuf, &buf, &outbuf );
+        //Note that CER puts a BOM when converting to unicode
+        //so we  check and use getchars instead in that case
+        if (m_encoding == kCFStringEncodingUnicode)
+        {
+            if (szOut != NULL)
+                CFStringGetCharacters(theString, CFRangeMake(0, nOutSize - 1), (UniChar*) szOut);
 
-        res = n-outbuf;
+            nRealOutSize = CFStringGetLength(theString) + 1;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            CFStringGetBytes(
+                theString,
+                CFRangeMake(0, CFStringGetLength(theString)),
+                m_encoding,
+                0, //what to put in characters that can't be converted -
+                    //0 tells CFString to return NULL if it meets such a character
+                false, //not an external representation
+                (UInt8*) szOut,
+                nOutSize,
+                (CFIndex*) &nRealOutSize
+                        );
+        }
 
-        // NB: iconv was given only wcslen(psz) characters on input, and so
-        //     it couldn't convert the trailing zero. Let's do it ourselves
-        //     if there's some room left for it in the output buffer.
-        if (res < n)
-            buf[0] = 0;
+        CFRelease(theString);
+
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        delete[] szUniBuffer;
+#endif
+
+        return  nRealOutSize - 1;
     }
-    else
+
+    bool IsOk() const
     {
-        // no destination buffer... convert using temp buffer
-        // to calculate destination buffer requirement
-        char tbuf[16];
-        res = 0;
-        do {
-            buf = tbuf; outbuf = 16;
+        return m_encoding != kCFStringEncodingInvalidId &&
+              CFStringIsEncodingAvailable(m_encoding);
+    }
 
-            cres = iconv( w2m, ICONV_CHAR_CAST(&psz), &inbuf, &buf, &outbuf );
+private:
+    CFStringEncoding m_encoding ;
+};
 
-            res += 16 - outbuf;
-        } while ((cres==(size_t)-1) && (errno==E2BIG));
-    }
+#endif // defined(__WXCOCOA__)
 
-    if (ms_wcNeedsSwap)
+// ============================================================================
+// Mac conversion classes
+// ============================================================================
+
+#if defined(__WXMAC__) && defined(TARGET_CARBON)
+
+class wxMBConv_mac : public wxMBConv
+{
+public:
+    wxMBConv_mac()
     {
-        free(tmpbuf);
+        Init(CFStringGetSystemEncoding()) ;
     }
 
-    if (ICONV_FAILED(cres, inbuf))
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+    wxMBConv_mac(const wxChar* name)
     {
-        //VS: it is ok if iconv fails, hence trace only
-        wxLogTrace(wxT("strconv"), wxT("iconv failed: %s"), wxSysErrorMsg(wxSysErrorCode()));
-        return (size_t)-1;
+        Init( wxMacGetSystemEncFromFontEnc(wxFontMapperBase::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(name, false) ) ) ;
     }
+#endif
 
-    return res;
-}
+    wxMBConv_mac(wxFontEncoding encoding)
+    {
+        Init( wxMacGetSystemEncFromFontEnc(encoding) );
+    }
 
-#endif // HAVE_ICONV
+    ~wxMBConv_mac()
+    {
+        OSStatus status = noErr ;
+        status = TECDisposeConverter(m_MB2WC_converter);
+        status = TECDisposeConverter(m_WC2MB_converter);
+    }
 
 
-// ============================================================================
-// Win32 conversion classes
-// ============================================================================
+    void Init( TextEncodingBase encoding)
+    {
+        OSStatus status = noErr ;
+        m_char_encoding = encoding ;
+        m_unicode_encoding = CreateTextEncoding(kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault,0,kUnicode16BitFormat) ;
 
-#ifdef wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
+        status = TECCreateConverter(&m_MB2WC_converter,
+                                    m_char_encoding,
+                                    m_unicode_encoding);
+        status = TECCreateConverter(&m_WC2MB_converter,
+                                    m_unicode_encoding,
+                                    m_char_encoding);
+    }
 
-// from utils.cpp
-extern WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxCharsetToCodepage(const wxChar *charset);
-extern WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE long wxEncodingToCodepage(wxFontEncoding encoding);
+    size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n) const
+    {
+        OSStatus status = noErr ;
+        ByteCount byteOutLen ;
+        ByteCount byteInLen = strlen(psz) ;
+        wchar_t *tbuf = NULL ;
+        UniChar* ubuf = NULL ;
+        size_t res = 0 ;
 
-class wxMBConv_win32 : public wxMBConv
-{
-public:
-    wxMBConv_win32(const wxChar* name)
+        if (buf == NULL)
         {
-            m_CodePage = wxCharsetToCodepage(name);
+            //apple specs say at least 32
+            n = wxMax( 32 , byteInLen ) ;
+            tbuf = (wchar_t*) malloc( n * SIZEOF_WCHAR_T) ;
         }
+        ByteCount byteBufferLen = n * sizeof( UniChar ) ;
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        ubuf = (UniChar*) malloc( byteBufferLen + 2 ) ;
+#else
+        ubuf = (UniChar*) (buf ? buf : tbuf) ;
+#endif
+        status = TECConvertText(m_MB2WC_converter, (ConstTextPtr) psz , byteInLen, &byteInLen,
+          (TextPtr) ubuf , byteBufferLen, &byteOutLen);
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        // we have to terminate here, because n might be larger for the trailing zero, and if UniChar
+        // is not properly terminated we get random characters at the end
+        ubuf[byteOutLen / sizeof( UniChar ) ] = 0 ;
+        wxMBConvUTF16 converter ;
+        res = converter.MB2WC( (buf ? buf : tbuf) , (const char*)ubuf , n ) ;
+        free( ubuf ) ;
+#else
+        res = byteOutLen / sizeof( UniChar ) ;
+#endif
+        if ( buf == NULL )
+             free(tbuf) ;
 
-    wxMBConv_win32(wxFontEncoding encoding)
+        if ( buf  && res < n)
+            buf[res] = 0;
+
+        return res ;
+    }
+
+    size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
+    {
+        OSStatus status = noErr ;
+        ByteCount byteOutLen ;
+        ByteCount byteInLen = wxWcslen(psz) * SIZEOF_WCHAR_T ;
+
+        char *tbuf = NULL ;
+
+        if (buf == NULL)
         {
-            m_CodePage = wxEncodingToCodepage(encoding);
+            //apple specs say at least 32
+            n = wxMax( 32 , ((byteInLen / SIZEOF_WCHAR_T) * 8) + SIZEOF_WCHAR_T );
+            tbuf = (char*) malloc( n ) ;
         }
 
-    size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t n)
-    {
-        const size_t len = ::MultiByteToWideChar
-                             (
-                                m_CodePage,     // code page
-                                0,              // flags (none)
-                                psz,            // input string
-                                -1,             // its length (NUL-terminated)
-                                buf,            // output string
-                                buf ? n : 0     // size of output buffer
-                             );
+        ByteCount byteBufferLen = n ;
+        UniChar* ubuf = NULL ;
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        wxMBConvUTF16 converter ;
+        size_t unicharlen = converter.WC2MB( NULL , psz , 0 ) ;
+        byteInLen = unicharlen ;
+        ubuf = (UniChar*) malloc( byteInLen + 2 ) ;
+        converter.WC2MB( (char*) ubuf , psz, unicharlen + 2 ) ;
+#else
+        ubuf = (UniChar*) psz ;
+#endif
+        status = TECConvertText(m_WC2MB_converter, (ConstTextPtr) ubuf , byteInLen, &byteInLen,
+            (TextPtr) (buf ? buf : tbuf) , byteBufferLen, &byteOutLen);
+#if SIZEOF_WCHAR_T == 4
+        free( ubuf ) ;
+#endif
+        if ( buf == NULL )
+            free(tbuf) ;
 
-        // note that it returns # of written chars for buf != NULL and *size*
-        // of the needed buffer for buf == NULL
-        return len ? (buf ? len : len - 1) : (size_t)-1;
-    }
+        size_t res = byteOutLen ;
+        if ( buf  && res < n)
+        {
+            buf[res] = 0;
 
-    size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n)
-    {
-        const size_t len = ::WideCharToMultiByte
-                             (
-                                m_CodePage,     // code page
-                                0,              // flags (none)
-                                psz,            // input string
-                                -1,             // it is (wide) NUL-terminated
-                                buf,            // output buffer
-                                buf ? n : 0,    // and its size
-                                NULL,           // default "replacement" char
-                                NULL            // [out] was it used?
-                             );
+            //we need to double-trip to verify it didn't insert any ? in place
+            //of bogus characters
+            wxWCharBuffer wcBuf(n);
+            size_t pszlen = wxWcslen(psz);
+            if ( MB2WC(wcBuf.data(), buf, n) == (size_t)-1 ||
+                        wxWcslen(wcBuf) != pszlen ||
+                        memcmp(wcBuf, psz, pszlen * sizeof(wchar_t)) != 0 )
+            {
+                // we didn't obtain the same thing we started from, hence
+                // the conversion was lossy and we consider that it failed
+                return (size_t)-1;
+            }
+        }
 
-        // see the comment above!
-        return len ? (buf ? len : len - 1) : (size_t)-1;
+        return res ;
     }
 
     bool IsOk() const
-        { return m_CodePage != -1; }
+        { return m_MB2WC_converter !=  NULL && m_WC2MB_converter != NULL  ; }
 
-public:
-    long m_CodePage;
-};
+private:
+    TECObjectRef m_MB2WC_converter ;
+    TECObjectRef m_WC2MB_converter ;
 
-#endif // wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
+    TextEncodingBase m_char_encoding ;
+    TextEncodingBase m_unicode_encoding ;
+};
 
+#endif // defined(__WXMAC__) && defined(TARGET_CARBON)
 
 // ============================================================================
 // wxEncodingConverter based conversion classes
@@ -1250,7 +2379,7 @@ public:
     wxMBConv_wxwin(const wxChar* name)
     {
         if (name)
-            m_enc = wxFontMapper::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(name, false);
+            m_enc = wxFontMapperBase::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(name, false);
         else
             m_enc = wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
 
@@ -1264,19 +2393,25 @@ public:
         Init();
     }
 
-    size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t WXUNUSED(n))
+    size_t MB2WC(wchar_t *buf, const char *psz, size_t WXUNUSED(n)) const
     {
         size_t inbuf = strlen(psz);
         if (buf)
-            m2w.Convert(psz,buf);
+        {
+            if (!m2w.Convert(psz,buf))
+                return (size_t)-1;
+        }
         return inbuf;
     }
 
-    size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t WXUNUSED(n))
+    size_t WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t WXUNUSED(n)) const
     {
         const size_t inbuf = wxWcslen(psz);
         if (buf)
-            w2m.Convert(psz,buf);
+        {
+            if (!w2m.Convert(psz,buf))
+                return (size_t)-1;
+        }
 
         return inbuf;
     }
@@ -1293,6 +2428,18 @@ public:
     DECLARE_NO_COPY_CLASS(wxMBConv_wxwin)
 };
 
+// make the constructors available for unit testing
+WXDLLIMPEXP_BASE wxMBConv* new_wxMBConv_wxwin( const wxChar* name )
+{
+    wxMBConv_wxwin* result = new wxMBConv_wxwin( name );
+    if ( !result->IsOk() )
+    {
+        delete result;
+        return 0;
+    }
+    return result;
+}
+
 #endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
 
 // ============================================================================
@@ -1306,37 +2453,21 @@ void wxCSConv::Init()
     m_deferred = true;
 }
 
-// find a valid value for the encoding
-void wxCSConv::SetEncoding()
-{
-#if wxUSE_INTL
-    m_encoding = wxLocale::GetSystemEncoding();
-#else
-    m_encoding = wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
-#endif
-}
-
 wxCSConv::wxCSConv(const wxChar *charset)
 {
     Init();
 
     if ( charset )
     {
-        // not used
-        m_encoding = wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
-
         SetName(charset);
     }
-    else // no charset specified
-    {
-        SetEncoding();
-    }
+
+    m_encoding = wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
 }
 
 wxCSConv::wxCSConv(wxFontEncoding encoding)
 {
-    if ( encoding == wxFONTENCODING_MAX ||
-            encoding == wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT )
+    if ( encoding == wxFONTENCODING_MAX || encoding == wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT )
     {
         wxFAIL_MSG( _T("invalid encoding value in wxCSConv ctor") );
 
@@ -1345,14 +2476,7 @@ wxCSConv::wxCSConv(wxFontEncoding encoding)
 
     Init();
 
-    if ( encoding == wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM )
-    {
-        SetEncoding();
-    }
-    else // have valid encoding, use it
-    {
-        m_encoding = encoding;
-    }
+    m_encoding = encoding;
 }
 
 wxCSConv::~wxCSConv()
@@ -1397,28 +2521,28 @@ void wxCSConv::SetName(const wxChar *charset)
     }
 }
 
-static inline bool DoesntNeedConv(wxFontEncoding enc)
-{
-    return enc == wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT ||
-            enc == wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM ||
-             enc == wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1;
-}
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+#include "wx/hashmap.h"
+
+WX_DECLARE_HASH_MAP( wxFontEncoding, wxString, wxIntegerHash, wxIntegerEqual,
+                     wxEncodingNameCache );
+
+static wxEncodingNameCache gs_nameCache;
+#endif
 
 wxMBConv *wxCSConv::DoCreate() const
 {
 #if wxUSE_FONTMAP
-    wxFontMapper * const fontMapper = wxFontMapper::Get();
-
-    wxFontEncoding encFromName = m_name ? fontMapper->CharsetToEncoding(m_name)
-                                        : wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM;
+    wxLogTrace(TRACE_STRCONV,
+               wxT("creating conversion for %s"),
+               (m_name ? m_name
+                       : wxFontMapperBase::GetEncodingName(m_encoding).c_str()));
 #endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
 
-    // check for the special case of ASCII charset
-    if ( (!m_name && DoesntNeedConv(m_encoding))
-#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
-            || (m_name && DoesntNeedConv(encFromName))
-#endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
-       )
+    // check for the special case of ASCII or ISO8859-1 charset: as we have
+    // special knowledge of it anyhow, we don't need to create a special
+    // conversion object
+    if ( m_encoding == wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1 )
     {
         // don't convert at all
         return NULL;
@@ -1434,32 +2558,123 @@ wxMBConv *wxCSConv::DoCreate() const
 
     // step (1)
 #ifdef HAVE_ICONV
+#if !wxUSE_FONTMAP
     if ( m_name )
+#endif // !wxUSE_FONTMAP
     {
-        wxMBConv_iconv *conv = new wxMBConv_iconv(m_name);
-        if ( conv->IsOk() )
-            return conv;
+        wxString name(m_name);
+        wxFontEncoding encoding(m_encoding);
 
-        delete conv;
+        if ( !name.empty() )
+        {
+            wxMBConv_iconv *conv = new wxMBConv_iconv(name);
+            if ( conv->IsOk() )
+                return conv;
+
+            delete conv;
+
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+            encoding =
+                wxFontMapperBase::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(name, false);
+#endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
+        }
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+        {
+            const wxEncodingNameCache::iterator it = gs_nameCache.find(encoding);
+            if ( it != gs_nameCache.end() )
+            {
+                if ( it->second.empty() )
+                    return NULL;
+
+                wxMBConv_iconv *conv = new wxMBConv_iconv(it->second);
+                if ( conv->IsOk() )
+                    return conv;
+
+                delete conv;
+            }
+
+            const wxChar** names = wxFontMapperBase::GetAllEncodingNames(encoding);
+
+            for ( ; *names; ++names )
+            {
+                wxMBConv_iconv *conv = new wxMBConv_iconv(*names);
+                if ( conv->IsOk() )
+                {
+                    gs_nameCache[encoding] = *names;
+                    return conv;
+                }
+
+                delete conv;
+            }
+
+            gs_nameCache[encoding] = _T(""); // cache the failure
+        }
+#endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
     }
 #endif // HAVE_ICONV
 
 #ifdef wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
     {
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
         wxMBConv_win32 *conv = m_name ? new wxMBConv_win32(m_name)
                                       : new wxMBConv_win32(m_encoding);
         if ( conv->IsOk() )
             return conv;
 
         delete conv;
+#else
+        return NULL;
+#endif
     }
 #endif // wxHAVE_WIN32_MB2WC
+#if defined(__WXMAC__)
+    {
+        // leave UTF16 and UTF32 to the built-ins of wx
+        if ( m_name || ( m_encoding < wxFONTENCODING_UTF16BE ||
+            ( m_encoding >= wxFONTENCODING_MACMIN && m_encoding <= wxFONTENCODING_MACMAX ) ) )
+        {
 
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+            wxMBConv_mac *conv = m_name ? new wxMBConv_mac(m_name)
+                                        : new wxMBConv_mac(m_encoding);
+#else
+            wxMBConv_mac *conv = new wxMBConv_mac(m_encoding);
+#endif
+            if ( conv->IsOk() )
+                 return conv;
+
+            delete conv;
+        }
+    }
+#endif
+#if defined(__WXCOCOA__)
+    {
+        if ( m_name || ( m_encoding <= wxFONTENCODING_UTF16 ) )
+        {
+
+#if wxUSE_FONTMAP
+            wxMBConv_cocoa *conv = m_name ? new wxMBConv_cocoa(m_name)
+                                          : new wxMBConv_cocoa(m_encoding);
+#else
+            wxMBConv_cocoa *conv = new wxMBConv_cocoa(m_encoding);
+#endif
+            if ( conv->IsOk() )
+                 return conv;
+
+            delete conv;
+        }
+    }
+#endif
     // step (2)
     wxFontEncoding enc = m_encoding;
 #if wxUSE_FONTMAP
-    if ( enc == wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM )
-        enc = encFromName;
+    if ( enc == wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM && m_name )
+    {
+        // use "false" to suppress interactive dialogs -- we can be called from
+        // anywhere and popping up a dialog from here is the last thing we want to
+        // do
+        enc = wxFontMapperBase::Get()->CharsetToEncoding(m_name, false);
+    }
 #endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
 
     switch ( enc )
@@ -1470,18 +2685,12 @@ wxMBConv *wxCSConv::DoCreate() const
         case wxFONTENCODING_UTF8:
              return new wxMBConvUTF8;
 
-        case wxFONTENCODING_UTF16:
-             return new wxMBConvUTF16;
-
         case wxFONTENCODING_UTF16BE:
              return new wxMBConvUTF16BE;
 
         case wxFONTENCODING_UTF16LE:
              return new wxMBConvUTF16LE;
 
-        case wxFONTENCODING_UTF32:
-             return new wxMBConvUTF32;
-
         case wxFONTENCODING_UTF32BE:
              return new wxMBConvUTF32BE;
 
@@ -1505,15 +2714,28 @@ wxMBConv *wxCSConv::DoCreate() const
     }
 #endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP
 
-    wxLogError(_("Cannot convert from the charset '%s'!"),
-               m_name ? m_name
+    // NB: This is a hack to prevent deadlock. What could otherwise happen
+    //     in Unicode build: wxConvLocal creation ends up being here
+    //     because of some failure and logs the error. But wxLog will try to
+    //     attach timestamp, for which it will need wxConvLocal (to convert
+    //     time to char* and then wchar_t*), but that fails, tries to log
+    //     error, but wxLog has a (already locked) critical section that
+    //     guards static buffer.
+    static bool alreadyLoggingError = false;
+    if (!alreadyLoggingError)
+    {
+        alreadyLoggingError = true;
+        wxLogError(_("Cannot convert from the charset '%s'!"),
+                   m_name ? m_name
                       :
 #if wxUSE_FONTMAP
-                         wxFontMapper::GetEncodingDescription(m_encoding).c_str()
+                         wxFontMapperBase::GetEncodingDescription(m_encoding).c_str()
 #else // !wxUSE_FONTMAP
                          wxString::Format(_("encoding %s"), m_encoding).c_str()
 #endif // wxUSE_FONTMAP/!wxUSE_FONTMAP
               );
+        alreadyLoggingError = false;
+    }
 
     return NULL;
 }
@@ -1523,6 +2745,16 @@ void wxCSConv::CreateConvIfNeeded() const
     if ( m_deferred )
     {
         wxCSConv *self = (wxCSConv *)this; // const_cast
+
+#if wxUSE_INTL
+        // if we don't have neither the name nor the encoding, use the default
+        // encoding for this system
+        if ( !m_name && m_encoding == wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM )
+        {
+            self->m_name = wxStrdup(wxLocale::GetSystemEncodingName());
+        }
+#endif // wxUSE_INTL
+
         self->m_convReal = DoCreate();
         self->m_deferred = false;
     }
@@ -1559,12 +2791,61 @@ size_t wxCSConv::WC2MB(char *buf, const wchar_t *psz, size_t n) const
     if (buf)
     {
         for (size_t c = 0; c <= len; c++)
-            buf[c] = (psz[c] > 0xff) ? '?' : psz[c];
+        {
+            if (psz[c] > 0xFF)
+                return (size_t)-1;
+            buf[c] = (char)psz[c];
+        }
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        for (size_t c = 0; c <= len; c++)
+        {
+            if (psz[c] > 0xFF)
+                return (size_t)-1;
+        }
     }
 
     return len;
 }
 
-#endif // wxUSE_WCHAR_T
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// globals
+// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#ifdef __WINDOWS__
+    static wxMBConv_win32 wxConvLibcObj;
+#elif defined(__WXMAC__) && !defined(__MACH__)
+    static wxMBConv_mac wxConvLibcObj ;
+#else
+    static wxMBConvLibc wxConvLibcObj;
+#endif
+
+static wxCSConv wxConvLocalObj(wxFONTENCODING_SYSTEM);
+static wxCSConv wxConvISO8859_1Obj(wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1);
+static wxMBConvUTF7 wxConvUTF7Obj;
+static wxMBConvUTF8 wxConvUTF8Obj;
+
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv&) wxConvLibc = wxConvLibcObj;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxCSConv&) wxConvLocal = wxConvLocalObj;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxCSConv&) wxConvISO8859_1 = wxConvISO8859_1Obj;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConvUTF7&) wxConvUTF7 = wxConvUTF7Obj;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConvUTF8&) wxConvUTF8 = wxConvUTF8Obj;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv *) wxConvCurrent = &wxConvLibcObj;
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv *) wxConvFileName = &
+#ifdef __WXOSX__
+                                    wxConvUTF8Obj;
+#else
+                                    wxConvLibcObj;
+#endif
+
+
+#else // !wxUSE_WCHAR_T
 
+// stand-ins in absence of wchar_t
+WXDLLIMPEXP_DATA_BASE(wxMBConv) wxConvLibc,
+                                wxConvISO8859_1,
+                                wxConvLocal,
+                                wxConvUTF8;
 
+#endif // wxUSE_WCHAR_T/!wxUSE_WCHAR_T