2010/5/21 Andy Koppe <andy.ko...@gmail.com>: > > So why do you need to set it to ja_JP.Shift_JIS if ja_JP.CP932 and > ja_JP.SJIS do the same thing?
There is no serious reason. I think IANA name is more famous. > I'm not convinced that adding Shift_JIS to Cygwin as another alias for > CP932 is a good idea, because they aren't actually the same, e.g. > iconv treats them as different charsets. The SJIS alias is dodgy > enough already. Yes, I know it is difficult problem. @centos5.5 $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Shift_JIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f SJIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f CP932 -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 005c 0020 007e 0020 ff5e 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Windows-31J -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 005c 0020 007e 0020 ff5e 000000a @cygwin-1.7 $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Shift_JIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f SJIS -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 00a5 0020 203e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f CP932 -t UTF-16LE|hexdump 0000000 005c 0020 007e 0020 301c 000000a $ echo -ne '\x5c ~ \x81\x60'|iconv -f Windows-31J -t UTF-16LE|hexdump iconv: conversion from Windows-31J unsupported iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
