Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx iconv for Solaris

[Takao Fujiwara - Tokyo S/W Center]

Thomas Dickey-san wrote (12/25/08 11:11 PM):
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > > @@ -952,6 +952,20 @@ int UCTransUniCharStr(char *outbuf,
> > >          HTSprintf0(&tocode, "%s//TRANSLIT", 
> > > LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].MIMEname);
> > >          cd = iconv_open(tocode, "UTF-16BE");
> > >          FREE(tocode)
> > > +        if (cd == (iconv_t)-1) {
> > > +        HTSprintf0(&tocode, "%s", LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].MIMEname);
> >
> > I'm puzzled here - since TRANSLIT is less stringent, I would expect
> > that the check would be first made on the exact translation rather
> > than on the transliteration.   Any comments?
>
> looking a little further, I see that the issue is that TRANSLIT is
> a glibc extension, so it's tried first in case it works.  (google didn't
> show much comment about whether it's more/less likely to succeed than the
> plain POSIX version).

Yes, you're right.
This means Solaris iconv always failed the "$ENCODING//TRANSLIT".
So if iconv_open("$ENCODING, "UTF-16BE") is added without "//TRANSLIT", it 
works on none GNU iconv.


> -  if ((strcmp(LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].MIMEname, "shift_jis") == 0) ||
> -      (strcmp(LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].MIMEname, "euc-jp") == 0)) {
> +  if (LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].codepage == 0 &&
> +      LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].codepoints == 0) {
>        iconv_t cd;

This means I'd like to use iconv for CJK but not Japanese only.