Re: Outputting .sav files

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 03:33:10PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
     And, of course, we should support the encoding for .sav files,
     too.

My concern would be ensuring that we don't break anything which
has previously "worked".   There are a lot of older files in the
wild which have the character encoding of 2 but contain non-ascii
characters.

     
     > I seem to remember that we had a discussion about converting codepage
     > numbers to posix encodings a few months ago, but I couldn't find it by
     > searching the mailing list archives.
     
     I think that Gnulib or gettext might include a mapping table.

I had a brief look but couldn't find anything.  There's some
information on other websites, but nothing which is either complete or
authoritative. 

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