Subject: Re: lib/28325: our iconv does not understand Shift_JIS half-width
To: None <tnozaki@netbsd.org>
From: T.SHIOZAKI <tshiozak@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/16/2004 16:06:25
Hi,
> >Description:
> Oour iconv does not appear to understand hanakau (half-width) katakana
> (unicode 0xff80 page) for the Shift_JIS character set. Linux does just
> fine.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Paste some hankaku katakana into vim with encoding=utf-8 and
> fileencoding=utf-8. Save and note that it saves just fine. Set
> fileencoding=Shift_JIS and note you can't save any more. Then
> try
> iconv -f utf-8 -t shift_jis <that-file-saved-as-utf-8>
> and note that it fails.
> >Fix:
Maybe Nozaki-san have a patch to fix this problem.
(Sorry, I have been forgotten it till now.)
Nozaki-san, please commit it if you have it.
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Takuya SHIOZAKI