On 2002.02.02, at 00:32, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
So far as I see Linux iconv is ascii-preservative while ICS's is
Unicode-strict.
From Perl's point of view ASCII preservative should be default.
Why?
I have already answered in the previous mail (Subject:More on Unicode
Mappings, Message-Id: <F14F4D0C-1705-11D6-81A1-00039301D480(_at_)dan(_dot_)co(_dot_)jp>
) but this one is important so let me repeat.
With a good reason. The original mapping of Unicode renders any
(EUC|JIS|SHIFTJIS)-written perl scripts (or C codes) unusable. In
Japan '\' has been mapped to Yen mark (Because it happened to be at
localizable area in ASCII. I believe localizable area in ASCII is
causing a lot of headache for such folks as Danish which exploits this
feature to fullest extent). So source codes in Japan comes with lots
of yen marks instead of backslash.
My very first implementation of Jcode did use Unicode table as is and
this problem was address in less than hour of release so I fixed it.
Dan
