Re: Bug#137185: general: Some IANA registered charset names are not recognized
Victor Wagner <vitus@ice.ru> wrote:
> All the Debian packages which use iconv for charset conversion,
> by default do not understand encoding names such as windows-1251,
> which are perfectly legal IANA-registered encoding names.
> Instead they understand names like cp1251 which are glibc-specific
> and unportable.
> Some packages affected by this problem:
> vim
> xsltproc
> libxml-libxml-perl
> and there are many others.
[...]
I really doubt that "all the Debian packages which use iconv for
charset conversion" are broken.
My unofficial tin-packages use iconv too, I did not add _any_ black
magic to them but simply packaged the upstream-version and it
understands at least windows-1252 perfectly well (I have not got any
postings in windows-1251 in my spool, it is uncommon in de.*)
Another example that works well: /usr/bin/iconv from libc6.
cu andreas
PS: As a test I'll use windows-1252 as encoding, Euro: €,
Umlaut-o: ö, currency-sign: ¤
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