Re: [cp-patches] Lots of new Character set converters

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

Quentin wasn't on the list yet. So I forwarded your questions and I am
forwarding his answers. He is on the list now. Welcome Quentin!

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:00 +0100, Quentin Anciaux wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 02:58 +0100, Robert Schuster wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > I have some questions regarding certain alias names:
> >
> >+
> >+      //# UTF16
> > SNIP
> >  
> >
> >Shouldn't the values of these not be "UTF16" instead of "UTF16BE"?
> 
> In fact UTF16 refer to UTF16 Big Endian. UTF16 by itself doesn't exists, it 
> is 
> either Big Endian or Litlle Endian... Either the stream contains a BOM that 
> permits to know who is who, or an explicit name like BE or LE. If not set it 
> default to the Big Endian version.
> 
> >+      //# UTF32
> Same answer
> 
> >+      dp.put("gnu.java.io.encoding_scheme_alias.ANSI_X3.4-1968", "ASCII");
> >+      dp.put("gnu.java.io.encoding_scheme_alias.ANSI_X3.4-1986", "ASCII");
> >  
> >
> >Is this a convenience for people often swapping numbers or really a 
> >charset name?
> 
> No, in fact I've taken the aliased name from here :
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/convexp
> 
> Regards Quentin

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