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  • From: "ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
  • To: <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv
  • Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 15:23:51 +0100

>From man iconv(3)

If iconv() encounters a character in the input buffer that is legal but
for which an identical character does not exist in the target codeset,
iconv() maps this character to a pre-defined character, called the
"galley character" that is defined at the time of table generation. (See
genxlt(1)).

This mean that under such architecture invalid characters are not
converted to '?' but to system depentend value (in case utf-8 ->
iso8859-1 it's a '.') ...

freddy77




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