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Re: Questions regarding utf-8



Le vendredi  9 mai 2003, Nicolas Bertolissio écrit :
> Le vendredi  9 mai 2003, Sebastian Rittau écrit :
> > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 07:50:50PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote:
> > >      2.  What is the best available filter to convert from encoding X
> > >          to 7 bit ASCII?
> > 
> > iconv is the generic libc-based converter:
> > 
> >   iconv --from=SRC-ENCODING --to=DST-ENCODING SRC-FILE >DST-FILE
> no, according to what I've tested (I'm trying to turn around this
> conversion trouble for the ddts), iconv is a bijective function, it
> cannot convert if some characters don't exist in the destination
> encoding.
> 
> one solution is using recode, but it is not surjective so you cannot
s/surjective/injective

> compare result strings easily.
> 
> 
> Nicolas
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