Bug#212080: libc6: EUC-JP-MS missing
At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:44:17 +0900 (JST),
Kenshi Muto wrote:
> 'iconv --list' says it supports EUC-JP-MS (and EUCJP-MS,
> EUCJP-OPEN, EUCJP-WIN), but it doesn't work.
>
> $ iconv -f CP932 -t EUC-JP-MS test.txt
> iconv: conversion to `EUC-JP-MS'
>
> Because EUC-JP-MS support doesn't break Windows specific characters
> with converting from Unicode (EUC-JP breaks them), it is really needed
> by some Japanese people using Samba, WebDAV, and so on (For more
> details, please see
> http://www.monyo.com/technical/samba/docs/Japanese-HOWTO-3.0.en.txt).
>
> Mr. Topia has already created unofficial dpatches (pulled from CVS?),
> you can get 82_glibc232-euc-jp-ms-fix.dpatch and
> 82_glibc232-add-cp932-test.dpatch from
> http://nickle.ath.cx/~topia/debian/libc6/.
>
> The iconv of this libc6 looks work fine. I succeeded to convert
> files written in Windows SJIS (CP932) or UTF-8/16 to EUC-JP-MS, vice versa.
Looks fine, I've put in. Thanks. This bug will be fixed in 2.3.2-9.
Regards,
-- gotom
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