From: Keld Simonsen <keld@keldix.com>
To: Troy Korjuslommi <tjk@tksoft.com>
Cc: Steven Abner <pheonix@zoomtown.com>, libc-locales@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: locale encodings
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131112012257.GA31828@rap.rap.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384174607.4028.8.camel@uno11.loco>
Well, the encoding of the source coode of all locales should be 7-bit ascii, for
maximum portability. Then the target encoding should be recorded via the
% charset specification, which gives a list of possible charsets, comma separated.
UTF-8 should always be included there, but other encodings should also be available.
best regards
keld
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 02:56:47PM +0200, Troy Korjuslommi wrote:
> If you mean the locale data files, they have a line such as
> "% Charset: ISO-8859-1"
> which tell you the charset.
>
> It would indeed be a good idea to tell the files' maintainers to use
> UTF-8 from now on. For now you can use iconv or uconv to convert them.
> E.g. iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 < file > newfile
>
> Troy
>
>
>
> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 19:03 -0500, Steven Abner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Can you tell me what file format "cs_CZ", "sk_SK", "sv_SE" and "wo_SN" are encoded in? I was going to try
> > to fix it for my use, but can't open in a normal editor. I was doing a design test when these files tripped a non-POSIX portable character set code in my scanf()'s isspace(). I think they might be ISO8859-2 but not sure. Normal editor claims it can't be
> > open in UTF-8. I'd rather not second guess someone else's work, if I can. If it is ISO8859-2, I'll just decode/encode me a
> > UTF file to examine. Two other files have UTF8 encodings, which is no problem. Others do but weren't within scope of
> > the trap (comment character to first word after). I am only trying to verify the file parser is picking up exact data, and hopefully
> > not being corrupted by unusual codes, as some have been.
> > Thanks,
> > Steve
> > pheonix@zoomtown.com
> >
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-12 1:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-11 1:28 Steven Abner
2013-11-11 5:19 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-11-11 12:58 ` Troy Korjuslommi
2013-11-12 1:23 ` Keld Simonsen [this message]
2013-11-12 5:38 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-11-12 13:36 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-12 14:39 ` Carlos O'Donell
2013-11-12 16:11 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-12 14:52 ` Steven Abner
2013-11-12 16:15 ` Steven Abner
2013-11-14 7:47 ` Troy Korjuslommi
2013-11-14 11:33 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-14 20:47 ` Steven Abner
2013-11-14 21:17 ` Keld Simonsen
2013-11-14 21:17 ` Steven Abner
2013-11-26 17:05 Marko Myllynen
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