Re: [PATCH] t8005: Nobody writes Russian in shift_jis

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:

No change on my systems.  I can convert eucJP and SJIS from/to UTF-8, but
I cannot convert between eucJP and SJIS.

I wonder what's different, but I suspect having lang-support-japanese
package on the box perhaps is helping me.

So tests 2 and 3 still fail for
me.  Nothing was broken though.  The fourth test still passes which converts
each of the encodings to UTF-8.  So this patch is fine with me.

Yikes, so it does not really help by itself.  Taken together with
Alexander's comment that he did manage to send Russian in Shift_JIS (I
somehow do not think Alexander used Solaris for that, though; neither have
I any clue if the receiving end grokked that), perhaps the patch is
useless.

Even though I do not think if any Russian writes in KOI8-R and converts to
Shift_JIS on purpose, converting eucJP directly to SJIS is something
Japanese people who are on UNIX do quite often, or at least used to before
everybody moved to UTF-8.

Perhaps we should instead optionally help platform's iconv(3), when it
cannot convert A to B directly, by pivoting the conversion on UTF-8
(i.e. A -> UTF-8 -> B)?  That would probably help the real world use cases
while fixing the issue with this test script.