Bug#418058: iconv: half-smart on ascii compatible code conversion (shift-jis)
> iconv should not to smart guessing for 7 bit section of each traditional
> encodings which was ASCII compatible. They should be same in that 7 bit
> section.
>
> For all popular C/perl/shell/... programs written originally in
> shift-jis should not break if iconv is used to convert them in UTF-8.
Use 'cp932' (or 'windows-31j') instead of shift-jis.
IMO libc6 implements the "Shift-JIS to Unicode" mapping defined by
Unicode Inc. in the right way.
Thanks,
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Kenshi Muto
kmuto@debian.org
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