Owen Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>For the naming problem, I think you can generally count on
>not having conflicting names, so I'd take the approach of:
>
> - iconv open with the supplied name
>
> - if that fails, look in a list of aliases for alternate
> character set names to try.
>
>Character set naming, while certainly not properly standardized,
>is not such a huge problem as to make it impossible to handle.
>It's not like you'll ask for 'iso-8859-1' and find out that
>that's the system's name for 'SJIS'.
No, but it might just as well be.
man -s 5 iconv on this Sun (which is "best" way to find out what is
supported) shows (amongst others not including any JIS or even greek):
"Standard" iconv name
ISO 8859-1 8859
ISO 8859-5 iso5
MS 1250 win2
>
>Regards,
> Owen
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Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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