On 2002.02.02, at 00:32, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: >> 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?
I have already answered in the previous mail (Subject:More on Unicode Mappings, Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ) but this one is important so let me repeat. > With a good reason. The original mapping of Unicode renders any > (EUC|JIS|SHIFTJIS)-written perl scripts (or C codes) unusable. In > Japan '\' has been mapped to Yen mark (Because it happened to be at > localizable area in ASCII. I believe localizable area in ASCII is > causing a lot of headache for such folks as Danish which exploits this > feature to fullest extent). So source codes in Japan comes with lots > of yen marks instead of backslash. My very first implementation of Jcode did use Unicode table as is and this problem was address in less than hour of release so I fixed it. Dan
