Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] TILDE in Shift-jis

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Takemoto wrote:
> char(240) from utf-8 to EUC-JP
> http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=38425

Character 0xA0 is invalid in EUC-JP.

//TRANSLIT and //IGNORE don't handle this. They both apply to the target
character set, not to the source character set. See the documentation:

       When  the  string  "//TRANSLIT"  is  appended  to  tocode,
       transliteration is activated. This means that when a char-­
       acter  cannot  be represented in the target character set,
       it can be approximated through one or  several  characters
       that look similar to the original character.

       When  the string "//IGNORE" is appended to tocode, charac­-
       ters that cannot be represented in  the  target  character
       set will be silently discarded.

For this reason, UTF-8//TRANSLIT and UTF-8//IGNORE are the same as UTF-8.

When your input file is invalid, really you should fix the input, instead
of expecting iconv to fix it up somehow.

Bruno