Re: Unicode/UTF-8 support for man

[Bruno Haible]

Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS writes:

> If you want to succeed with the system's iconv and not require
> libiconv, you can convert via UTF-8 using your own UTF-8 encoder and
> decoder. It would be more efficient to convert via UCS-4, say, but you
> can never be quite sure what the implementer of iconv might have
> called UCS-4, even if they do have it. In fact, as far as iconv is
> concerned, "UTF-8" is almost the only portable character set name
> there is.

Right. This is exactly what the aforementioned unicodeio.c does.

Bruno
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