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

From: Marcus Brinkmann
Subject: Re: improved console interface (was: Re: some console code checked in
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 00:03:37 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:16:02PM +0100, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
> 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.

Yes, this is a good idea to solve that problem, one which I didn't think of
at all.

Thanks,
Marcus

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