iconv on Solaris

Wed Sep 26 09:34:00 GMT 2001

--On Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:24:52 AM -0600 Tom Tromey 
<tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "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.

Exactly; sorry for not being more specific.
> 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.

That sounds fine to me, but I am not an expert. I would assume that
UCS2-<native endianness> would be a very likely conversion to support;
if a system has iconv, it would probably have that, I would think.
Thanks,
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