Bug#528316: Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-11 Thread jidanni
Package: libc6 Version: 2.9-12 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/iconv X-debbugs-cc: ha...@m17n.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org Kenichi Handa writes: > In article <87y6t7axqg@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org writes: > >> OK. Should I report a bug against iconv, that -f

Re: Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-11 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article <87y6t7axqg@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org writes: > OK. Should I report a bug against iconv, that -f big5 should be at least > mapping to the same place as -f big5-hkscs or instead it should raise an > error about invalid input? > I don't know why that

Re: Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-08 Thread jidanni
Kenichi Handa writes: > In article <87ws8s4kdp@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org writes: > >> Why does iconv choose Private Use Area >> $ echo =C7=CD=C7=B9=C7=AF=C7=EF| >> perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print decode_qp($_)'| >> iconv -f big5

Re: Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-07 Thread Kenichi Handa
In article <87ws8s4kdp@jidanni.org>, jida...@jidanni.org writes: > Why does iconv choose Private Use Area > $ echo =C7=CD=C7=B9=C7=AF=C7=EF| > perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print decode_qp($_)'| > iconv -f big5 -t utf8|uni2ascii -wq > 0xF77A 0xF766 0xF75C 0xF79

Why does iconv choose Private Use Area? (big5->katakana)

2009-05-07 Thread jidanni
Why does iconv choose Private Use Area $ echo =C7=CD=C7=B9=C7=AF=C7=EF| perl -MMIME::QuotedPrint -wne 'print decode_qp($_)'| iconv -f big5 -t utf8|uni2ascii -wq 0xF77A 0xF766 0xF75C 0xF79C over U+30D1 KATAKANA LETTER PA, etc.? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.

Re: iconv and UTF-8 encoding

2003-02-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
tter). I can't read it > as is, so i'm trying to convert it to ISO-8859-1 or whatever the > standard is that i'm used to with iconv. > > following the manpage, i get this: > > iconv -f UTF-8 -f ISO_8859-1 stream.lower.ir > new_file.txt I do: $ iconv -f UTF

iconv and UTF-8 encoding

2003-02-04 Thread Nori Heikkinen
859-1 or whatever the standard is that i'm used to with iconv. following the manpage, i get this: iconv -f UTF-8 -f ISO_8859-1 stream.lower.ir > new_file.txt but this still appears with unreadable characters. does this mean that the file i'm trying to read from isn't

iconv

1999-03-25 Thread Richard Heller
Hi, Is there iconv for Linux? If not, is there an equivalent? Thanks, Rich