Bug#137185: marked as done (general: Some IANA registered charset names are not recognized)
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Subject: general: Some IANA registered charset names are not recognized
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Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-07
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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.
This problem also cases a confusion among maintainers, for instance
in the distributive /etc/Muttrc is writen
#aliases for broken MUAs
above mutt-specific fix for this problem. But MUA which use
IANA-approved charset names shouln't be considered broken.
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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:28:35 -0600
From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net>
To: 137185-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Some IANA registered charset names are not recognized
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$ iconv -l|grep -i windows
WINDOWS-1250//
WINDOWS-1251//
WINDOWS-1252//
WINDOWS-1253//
WINDOWS-1254//
WINDOWS-1255//
WINDOWS-1256//
WINDOWS-1257//
WINDOWS-1258//
$
This does not seem to be an iconv problem, since iconv clearly knows=20
about the character sets in question.
$ echo =E1=E9=ED=F3=FA|iconv -t utf8 -f windows-1252 | recode utf8..windows=
-1252
=E1=E9=ED=F3=FA
$
If there are programs that don't recognize these encoding names, then it=20
would seem there are bugs in those individual packages. You should open=20
bugs against those individual packages as you identify them; this is not=20
a general Debian bug, nor, as far as I can tell, is it a bug in iconv.
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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