Is there ever a need to have more than one conversion for a given
combination of encodings? And if I have more than one combination
registered, which one is used by the implicit server/client conversion?
Also, if my server encoding is A and my client encoding is B, and I do
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Is there ever a need to have more than one conversion for a given
combination of encodings?
Sure. For example, several Unicode and SJIS mappings exist depending
on vendors or standards. M$ has its own, Apple has another one...
If a user want to employ Apple's map, he could define his own