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- From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org>
- To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:54:43 -0500
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, "ZIGLIO Frediano" <Frediano.Ziglio AT vodafone.com>
wrote:
> 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 '.') ...
OK, we should note that in our documentation. Something like, "Your iconv
may behave somewhat differently, cf. iconv(3)."
Does HP's (?) iconv(3) set errno in this case?
--jkl
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[freetds] HP/UX and iconv,
ZIGLIO Frediano, 12/10/2003
- Re: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, James K. Lowden, 12/12/2003
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, ZIGLIO Frediano, 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, Thompson, Bill D (London), 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, ZIGLIO Frediano, 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, Lowden, James K, 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, Marquess, Dustin, 12/12/2003
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RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv,
Lowden, James K, 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, Christos Zoulas, 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, Lowden, James K, 12/12/2003
- RE: [freetds] HP/UX and iconv, Lowden, James K, 12/12/2003
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