Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] ISO-2022-JP to UTF-8

[Jeff Diehl]

On 10/20/11, Nayuta Taga <address@hidden> wrote:
> 2011/10/15 Jeff Diehl <address@hidden>:
>> Does anyone happen to know what variant of ISO-2022-JP Microsoft uses?
>>  I routinely encounter problems trying to convert ISO-2022-JP messages
>> produced by Microsoft mail clients to UTF-8.  I've tried all four
>> variants (ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-1, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-3)
>> supported by GNU libiconv and none of them work reliably on all
>> messages.  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
> How about ISO-2022-JP-MS ?
> It is introduced by
> http://www2d.biglobe.ne.jp/~msyk/software/libiconv/libiconv-1.13-ja-1.patch.gz
> .
> ( description in Japanese :
> http://www2d.biglobe.ne.jp/~msyk/software/libiconv-1.13-ja-patch.html
> )
>
> --
> nayuta
>

Nayuta - This patch does the trick.  Thank you for pointing it out.

Bruno - Any chance this patch can be incorporated into the next
revision?  Perhaps you would consider adding it as part of the "extra
encodings" (--enable-extra-encodings).

--
Jeff