Re: [PATCH 2/2] t8005: convert CP1251 character set to ISO8859-5

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:

This should still provide the same breadth of testing: a russian code set,
a japanese code set, and unicode.  Wikipedia says that ISO8859-5 is not
as commonly used as either CP1251 or KOI8-R, but it is available on these
old platforms.  You'd think that if Solaris 7 has it _and_ IRIX has it,
then everything else would too, but still feel free to drop this anyway.
Neither of those platforms, or Solaris 10 (for me) can convert between
any of the russian and japanese encodings, so t8005.[23] still fail, and I
doubt there is any hope.

Thanks.

My earlier experience with Sun is that their iconv cannot convert between
different encodings of Japanese but can use UTF-8 as a pivot to convert,
e.g. SJIS -> UTF-8 -> ISO-2022.  Perhaps there is an workaround, but I
dunno.