On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:26:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Converting EUC-JP -> UTF-8 -> EUC-JP is known to give output in some > cases that does not match the input. Unless we have some way to fix the > mapping tables in iconv, the only way to reasonably use UTF-8 for > Japanese in Debian is by eliminating one leg of this round-trip -- e.g., > by asking all Japanese translators to use a UTF-8 locale for their > translation work.
I havn't heard of this, and I'd be surprised that Tomohiro doesn't seem to know about it (at least he's never mentioned it). Could you give an example or a reference? (This would be a major bug, since round-trip compatibility is extremely important.) If I'm forced to support legacy encodings internally in a future i18nized project, I'd like to have a very clear understanding of why ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
