Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checked in

[Gaute B Strokkenes]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 05:27:57AM -0400, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
>> Yes.  It is up to you to eventually decide whether it is easier to
>> keep the extra information together with or separate from the
>> character number.  I'm just pointing out that it is possible.  I
>> suppose it might be easiest to add an option to iconv to ignore the
>> extra bits.
> 
> iconv is standardized.

Just barely.  The set of supported charsets is not.  For instance,
Solaris iconv does not recognise "ISO-8859-1", and
iconv_open("UTF-8", "UTF-8") will fail.

Adding support for a system-internal encoding seems like a pretty
reasonable thing to do.  That is, iconv_open("ISO-8859-15", "CONSOLE")
or some such.

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Gaute Strokkenes                        http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~gs234/
I have a very good DENTAL PLAN.  Thank you.