COMPOUND_TEXT versus UTF8_STRING

Roland Mainz roland.mainz at nrubsig.org
Wed Sep 22 19:41:42 EEST 2004


Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> XPG-2 provides iconv() which at least with glibc can handle ISO 2022-JP.
> That isn't an argument for using ISO 2022 however.

Solaris has the following nice iconv()-module:
/usr/lib/iconv/UTF-8%iso2022.so - maybe that function can be integrated
into libX11 somehow... :)

... and Solaris seems to have lots of other related iconv() modules as
well:
-- snip --
% ls -1ad $PWD/*2022* | wc -l
      61
-- snip --

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Bye,
Roland

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