Re: [PATCH 2/2] t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5

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Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This should still provide the same breadth of testing: a russian code set,
> a japanese code set, and unicode.  Wikipedia says that ISO8859-5 is not
> as commonly used as either CP1251 or KOI8-R, but it is available on these
> old platforms.  You'd think that if Solaris 7 has it _and_ IRIX has it,
> then everything else would too, but still feel free to drop this anyway.
> Neither of those platforms, or Solaris 10 (for me) can convert between
> any of the russian and japanese encodings, so t8005.[23] still fail, and I
> doubt there is any hope.

Thanks.

My earlier experience with Sun is that their iconv cannot convert between
different encodings of Japanese but can use UTF-8 as a pivot to convert,
e.g. SJIS -> UTF-8 -> ISO-2022.  Perhaps there is an workaround, but I
dunno.
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