Re: `iconv` should have the encoding `ISO646-SE2`

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 26, 2018, 09:26 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1804261125200.4978@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <6e8c0ae9-c699-6f39-014f-2008888722c8@gmail.com>

Hi Abinsium,

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Abinsium wrote:

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> I installed from `Git-2.16.2-64-bit.exe` from git-scm.com. `iconv` is included
> in this package. I think `iconv` should have the encoding `ISO646-SE2`. Ubuntu
> 16.04 has this encoding. I use it to read old Swedish text files, which there
> are a lot of e.g.:
> `curl -s https://www.abc.se/programbanken/abc/abc80/asmkod/basicii.txt |
> dos2unix | iconv -f ISO646-SE2 -t UTF8 | less`
> `ISO646-SE2` is used by e.g. the retro-computers Luxor
> [ABC80](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_80) (1978) and
> [ABC800](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC_800)-series (1981). At my
> university we only have Git Bash and not Ubuntu for WSL in Windows 10
> computers.
> 
> (Not clear where I should report this, but one should be able to report issues
> with the configuration of the other programs than `git` in the package
> somewhere. If there is a better place, please let me know.)
> Originally reported at https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues/1199

This has also been reported as https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1655. I will comment there, as this issue is really not relevant to Git.

Ciao, Johannes