iconv vs. libiconv, was Re: Patch: Fix for Bug 1164, 2nd try

[Andrew Dunbar]

Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 May 2001, ha shao wrote:
> 
> 
> > Patch to add codepage items for Chinese. Really useful?
> 
>  It would be nice to commit it.
> 
>  Also everywhere, CJK hackers told us that not all iconv
> implementations know "CP950" and "CP936" under these names - if it's true for
> iconv AW is linked with, fallback charset names "BIG5" and "GB2312" should be
> used.

According to the libiconv docs the encodings are not exactly
equivalent.  The same goes for "CP932"/SJIS and possibly the korean
encoding.  Is there a good reason not to just use libiconv on all
platforms since we know it's a good implementation and know what
it does and does not have.  It seems a small price to pay for a
nice gain in determinism.

Andrew Dunbar.

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