Unicode support (File names was Re: Warning:
Large Babeltranslation)
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Nov 17 15:25:23 UTC 2003
> For example, imagine Unix VM. The one running on Japanese Unices
> (typically uses EUC-jp) has to do different conversion from the one on
> Korean Unices (typically uses EUC-kr).
>
> Same as Windows VM. Currently it uses Shift-JIS on Japanese
> Windows, etc. If the VM implementors have to take care of all of
> those encoding support, it would be too much burden for them. If
> you're, say, from Vietname, and want to add VISCII support, you have
> to wait for the maintainer compile the VM, or how the maintainer feel
> sure what he is doing is right?
iconv supports all four of these formats: EUC-jp, EUC-kr, Shift-JIS, and
VISCII. So if the maintainer uses iconv they will feel great. That
web page, again, is:
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
I finally understand your point now about code duplication in the
various VM's, but that can be fixed by using C libraries such
as iconv.
The rest of the stuff I just don't get. I'll stop now instead
of speculating; maybe seeing the generality of iconv
is enough to rest the case.
-Lex
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