Re: ICU's uconv vs Linux iconv and UTF-8

From: Dan Kogai (dankogai@dan.co.jp)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 10:46:20 EST


On 2002.02.02, at 00:37, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>> Oh, yes. This is the problem of the original Unicode 2.x map; It is
>> not ASCII preservative. I have posted this problem to perl-
>> unicode@perl.org when I first released Jcode. Several discussions
>> later, I made Jcode so that it preserves ASCII by default and added
>> $Jcode::Unicode::PEDANTIC to change the behavior
>
> Ah. I take your point. If we used ICU's pedantic form
> Both UNIX ~/foo and MS C:\Foo get mangled.

EXACTLY!

> The other differences (having looked at diff in yudit) seems to be
> mapping (I"(B (cent),(I#(B (pound) ,(I,(B (not) and one of the longer dashes to
> different width variants (full width for ICU).
>
> I am going off ICU ...

   As I addressed to unicode@unicode.org, Yet another problems that
ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/EASTASIA/ is now gone so I don't
have a practical way to check the mapping. I want the mapping back!

Dan



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