Subject: Re: iconv vs. libiconv, was Re: Patch: Fix for Bug 1164, 2nd try
From: ha shao (hashao@chinese.com)
Date: Wed May 23 2001 - 01:00:18 CDT
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 03:51:42PM +1000, hippietrail@yahoo.com wrote:
> This seems related. I've noticed in xap_EncodingManager.cpp the
> function charsetFromCodepage returns "GB2312", "BIG5", etc instead
>
> of "CP936", "CP950", etc even when the iconv supports
> the "CPxxx"
> form and the encodings differ.
>
>
> I've looked at where this function is called and it seems to me this
> opens the door to lossy conversions. Should this function also use
> some form of fallback so that "BIG5" is only returned when iconv
> doesn't support "CP950"? Or maybe this function is ambiguous and
> really should be two separate functions?
This is what I've suggested in another mail. Yes, please replace
the mapping to a fallback call/macros.
-- Best regard hashao
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