Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] REQ: Encoding MARC-8

[Bruno Haible]

Duncan Smith wrote:
> Okay, so the purpose of libiconv is to support actual people talking
> to other people on the contemporary Internet, as opposed to converting
> all manner of strange things to Unicode and back.

Yes.

> Since I sent my earlier email, I got about halfway done implementing
> support for UTF-1 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-1>.  It's an ISO
> standard but "never gained wide acceptance", so would that also not be
> suitable for GNU libiconv?

It has also been "withdrawn from ISO/IEC 10646-1 by Amendment 4", says
<http://std.dkuug.dk/CEN/TC304/guidecharactersets/Annexb.doc>. Therefore
there's no point in implementing this encoding, not in libiconv, and
probably nowhere else either.

Bruno