Update status of this library wrt other variants.

[originally from svn r6500]

diff --git a/charset/README b/charset/README
index 248a8b2a046533073478d61df889754465a6b14f..16b540a7648003570c257b04144dc72612ee0172 100644 (file)
--- a/charset/README
+++ b/charset/README
@@ -2,10 +2,14 @@ This subdirectory contains a general character-set conversion
 library, used in the Unix port of PuTTY, and available for use in
 other ports if it should happen to be useful.
 
-I intend to use this same library in other programs at some future
-date. It is therefore a _strong_ design goal that this library
-should remain perfectly general, and not tied to particulars of
-PuTTY. It must not reference any code outside its own subdirectory;
-it should not have PuTTY-specific helper routines added to it unless
-they can be documented in a general manner which might make them
-useful in other circumstances as well.
+This is a variant of a library that's currently used in some other
+programs such as Timber and Halibut. At some future date, we would
+like to merge the two libraries, so that all programs use the same
+libcharset.
+
+It is therefore a _strong_ design goal that this library should remain
+perfectly general, and not tied to particulars of PuTTY. It must not
+reference any code outside its own subdirectory; it should not have
+PuTTY-specific helper routines added to it unless they can be
+documented in a general manner which might make them useful in other
+circumstances as well.