From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: libgcj/4216: Need support for character encoding aliases
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 19:26:00 -0000
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The following reply was made to PR libgcj/4216; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: green@redhat.com
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: libgcj/4216: Need support for character encoding aliases
Date: 03 Sep 2001 20:30:30 -0600

 >>>>> "Anthony" == green  <green@redhat.com> writes:
 
 Anthony> The runtime needs to have the notion of character encoding
 Anthony> aliases... like ISO-8859-1 == 8859_1.
 
 It already does have this -- see gnu/gcj/convert/IOConverter.java.
 In fact this precise alias is already there.
 In theory "ISO-8859-1" should be mapped to lower case and then looked up
 in the hash table.
 Why doesn't this work for you?
 
 Tom