From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 22:27:27 EST
--- Andrew Dunbar <hippietrail@yahoo.com> wrote: > I
just wanted to warn those of us who may need to
> use
> certain EncodingManager methods about a slight
> problem
> I've noticed.
>
> To get the names of certain encodings used by the
> system, for use with iconv there are a few methods
> provided:
>
> getNativeEncodingName()
> getNativeSystemEncodingName()
> getNative8BitEncodingName()
> getNativeUnicodeEncodingName()
>
> I've noticed that some code treats the second two as
> though they are mutually exclusive. This is not the
> case at all. As noted in the comment/documentation
> for getNative8BitEncodingName() - it is perfectly
> okay for it to return UTF-8 or any multibyte CJK
> encoding - the only requirement is that the encoding
> is a superset of ASCII.
> Some code is calling this function to get an
> ISO-8859-x encoding when the native encoding is
> UTF-8.
> I believe there are some very subtle bugs which may
> be
> due to this.
>
> The correct fix is to add yet another method:
> getNativeNonUnicodeEncodingName()
>
> which will never return UTF-8 on *nix,BeOS,QNX, or
> OSX
> and will never return UCS-2 or UTF-16 on Windows.
>
> There is a slight and subtle semantic overlap and I
> apologize for the confusing nature of this. I'd
> like
> to implement this myself right now but my internet
> cafe bill today is already astronomical ):
>
> So just be careful with encodings and keep up the
> good work!
Sorry to reply to myself. I've started working on
this but don't have enough to commit it yet. It
should be in by the end of the weekend...
Andrew.
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