RFC: Character set converters...

Fri Aug 13 15:56:00 GMT 2004

The problem at hand:
Run jCIFS (http://jcifs.samba.org) code in the libgcj runtime.
One problem we have is the need for a "UnicodeLittleUnmarked" character
set encoder for String.getBytes(String enc). This is supplied in Sun's
jre, but not libgcj.
My first attempt was to create the class:
gnu.gcj.convert.Output_UnicodeLittleUnmarked.java
This works, but I was thinking that perhaps a better way would be to add
a general purpose adapter into gnu.gcj.convert.UnicodeToBytes so that it
could use the java.nio.charset converters. Thus eliminating duplicated
code.
Does this make any sense?
I might be willing to either commit my Output_UnicodeLittleUnmarked.java
or implement the adapter scheme, and put the converter in java.nio.charset.
Comments?
David Daney.