On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:56:34PM +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Linux iconv will not take ICU's UTF-8. > >> > ICU's uconv will read the iconv output but does produce same as original > >> > table.euc. > >> > >> So far as I see Linux iconv is ascii-preservative while ICS's is > >> Unicode-strict. > >> From Perl's point of view ASCII preservative should be default. > > > >Why? > > Well as a non CJK native it seems to me that it would make sense if > \ and ~ as normally seen on a European's screen mapped to same Unicode > code point as the characters normally used in japan for that. > > So if I say "C:\Foo" in my perl and "translate" to euc-jp it should not > change! - Dan will _see_ C:„Foo - but he is used to that. Where as > if it gets mapped to the thing that looks like a '\' then OS may not > see it as a directory separator.
Okay, makes sense. > -- > Nick Ing-Simmons > http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/ > -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
