[Monotone-devel] avoid iconv differences [Was: Tests passing!]

[Lapo Luchini]

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Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> I guess we always want question marks, we're going to have to insert
> them by hand in at least some cases, and we'd rather not deal with all
> of this insanity.  So maybe we should consider:
>   -- try opening our iconv handle with //TRANSLIT
>   -- if that fails, try opening it the normal way (to account for any
>      systems that just don't know //TRANSLIT)
>   -- when we actually process bytes using this iconv handle, do
>      poor-man's-TRANSLIT handling -- whenever iconv says EILSEQ or
>      EINVAL, then dump a question mark to output, advance the input,
>      and try again.
> 
> This seems like it might be the minimal necessary-and-sufficient code?

Seems a good & clean approach to me.
I'll pursue it ASAP (a few days worth of bus-travels from and to my
workplace).
I have to remember that "skip" in this case is not "++pos", but rather
"pos+=utf8_char_len(pos);" (for an hypothetical utf_char_len function).

    Lapo
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