iconv on Solaris

Wed Sep 26 09:14:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:

Mark> That indicates that Solaris is probably doing the right thing,
Mark> and libjava/gcj/convert/natIconv.cc should be fixed to handle the BOM.
Mark> Or, just use UCS-2BE on Solaris.
I assume doing this omits the BOM. I imagine we could use
UCS-2BE/-2LE everywhere. If a platform doesn't have these it will
simply fail to create an iconv converter. I don't think that is very
bad. In this area we can simply require "reasonable" systems.
Desperate users can install GNU libiconv.
Tom