Hi Bruno,
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Therefore I would recommend to use the mem_cd_iconveh function from the
> 'striconveh' module, with FROMCODE = locale_charset() and TOCODE =
> "UTF-16BE" or "UTF-16LE" (or vice versa). Or mem_iconveh you don't
> want to reuse the conversion descriptors.
That's what I was going to do, but the excerpt of `u16-conv-from-enc.c'
that I quoted made me think that, e.g., "UTF-16BE" and "UTF-16LE" were
only known to work on Glibc >= 2.2:
/* Name of UTF-16 encoding with machine dependent endianness and alignment.
*/
#if defined _LIBICONV_VERSION || (__GLIBC__ > 2) || (__GLIBC__ == 2 &&
__GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 2)
# ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN
# define UTF16_NAME "UTF-16BE"
# else
# define UTF16_NAME "UTF-16LE"
# endif
#endif
Likewise, `u-conv-from-enc.h' contains alternate code for systems where
`UTF_NAME' is undefined (i.e., typically on non-GNU systems).
Therefore, `mem_iconveh ()' doesn't seem appropriate since there is
AFAIUI no portable way to specify, say, "UTF-16{LE,BE}" as TO_CODESET...
which led me to suggest that we might have to provide endianness-aware
conversion procedures.
Does it clarify things a bit? :-)
Thanks,
Ludovic.
