Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Nick Ing-Simmons wrote on 2000-10-30 12:37 UTC:
>> Clark Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >There's a routine available in modern Unix called iconv for performing
>> >character encoding conversion. I don't know how efficient it is. I believe
>> >I've seen a module for it on CPAN.
>> >
>> >It might be that iconv should be integerated into the core with 5.6+
>>
>> The iconv(3) routine exists on both Solaris and Linux, but the
>> set of supported encodings seems under specified and hard to determine.
>> (Linux seems to have far more and and easier way of finding out.)
>
>The improved iconv that will come soon with glibc 2.2 under Linux are
>also separately available in Bruno Haible's libiconv:
>
> http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
Interesting - what is the license on that version?
A glance at the web page does not show any EBCDIC but I may have missed
them under other names.
>
>Libiconv can be used easily on systems that do not come with a
>sufficiently good iconv() implementation from the OS vendor.
>
>Markus
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Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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