Re: UCS-2BE

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

> > It seems that UCS-2BE is not a mis-label of UTF-16BE, then,
> > it seems that treating it as a subset (not using surrogate
> > pair) of UTF-16BE (as done in iconv) is the right thing.

> I have the same understanding.

Ok.

> > I'll try to implement it (and others) in emacs-unicode-2.

> Is it reasonable to use the iconv library in Emacs (to not reimplement
> its encodings)?

We can use iconv for certain encodings, but not for all.
And, the code for handling variants of UCS/UTF is fairly
short as you see in iconv.  In addition, we anyway need data
in etc/charsets for
decode-char/encode-char/map-charset-chars functions.

So, I think it's simpler to have encoder/decoder in Emacs
itself.

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Kenichi Handa
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