Bug#418058: iconv: half-smart on ascii compatible code conversion (latin1, shift-jis, ...)

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:11:02PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> tags 418058 + unreproducible
> thanks
> All the diff you provide are actually wrong. In all those file, the
> input character for ' is not 27 but E2 80 99, which is an UTF-8
> sequence. iconv behaves correctly here.

Hmmm... I created these ASCII table from the output of "man ascii" but
did not check its content enough.

> Please provide us a correct input file (check it with hexdump) that
> exhibits the problem. I suggests to gzip it to avoid encoding
> translation by your MUA.

Let me sort out situation.  Quite likely, problem is just Japanese Yen
mark only.

Thanks for replying to this.