Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Tiled in Shift-JIS is not TRANSLITted

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Takemoto wrote:
> Further to my recent bug report of the problem when iconv meets
> char(126) - IGNORE ignores and TRANSLIT stops...
> 
> A kind man at TYPO3 has pointed out that Microsoft has a tilde at 126 in SJIS
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/dbcs/932.mspx

That is not Shift_JIS, it's CP932 (also called WINDOWS-932). Windows uses
CP932, not Shift_JIS. Shift_JIS is what has been standardized by Japanese
standards organizations; but it is not what is used today normally.

It's important to label things correctly. A web page in CP932 will not
display right if you label it with
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS" />

Just like a bash script will not work right if it is labelled with
  #!/bin/sh

Or a C++ program will not compile if you store it in a file named foo.c.

Bruno