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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow display bug
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow display bug |
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Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:25:13 -0400 |
>In the iconv command, you can append a //TRANSLIT to the target encoding
>to try to substitute some reasonable characters for characters that are
>not recognized there.
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>It appears that iconv(3) returns EILSEQ in this case. Do we have another
>mechanism to implement //TRANSLIT? Seems useful.
Anthony pointed out that //TRANSLIT is a GNU extension (and there are API
extensions that GNU iconv provide that give you more control over what
exactly happens there) but I don't think we can really depend on that
since those are not supported by POSIX.
--Ken