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Re: [PATCH 2/2] t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 23, 2009, 01:02 UTC
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:
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> This should still provide the same breadth of testing: a russian code set,
> a japanese code set, and unicode.  Wikipedia says that ISO8859-5 is not
> as commonly used as either CP1251 or KOI8-R, but it is available on these
> old platforms.  You'd think that if Solaris 7 has it _and_ IRIX has it,
> then everything else would too, but still feel free to drop this anyway.
> Neither of those platforms, or Solaris 10 (for me) can convert between
> any of the russian and japanese encodings, so t8005.[23] still fail, and I
> doubt there is any hope.
Thanks.

My earlier experience with Sun is that their iconv cannot convert between different encodings of Japanese but can use UTF-8 as a pivot to convert, e.g. SJIS -> UTF-8 -> ISO-2022. Perhaps there is an workaround, but I dunno.

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Message 7 of 15 in “t8005: use more portable character encoding names”
  1. t8005: use more portable character encoding namesBrandon Casey, May 22, 2009
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 22, 2009
  3. Brandon CaseyMay 22, 2009
  4. Alex RiesenMay 22, 2009
  5. 1/2 t8005: use more portable character encoding namesBrandon Casey, May 22, 2009
  6. 2/2 t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5Brandon Casey, May 22, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoMay 23, 2009
  9. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  10. Jeff KingMay 25, 2009
  11. Brandon CaseyMay 26, 2009
  12. Jeff KingMay 28, 2009
  13. Brandon CaseyMay 26, 2009
  14. Jeff KingMay 28, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoMay 26, 2009

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