> iconv should not to smart guessing for 7 bit section of each traditional > encodings which was ASCII compatible. They should be same in that 7 bit > section. > > For all popular C/perl/shell/... programs written originally in > shift-jis should not break if iconv is used to convert them in UTF-8.
Use 'cp932' (or 'windows-31j') instead of shift-jis. IMO libc6 implements the "Shift-JIS to Unicode" mapping defined by Unicode Inc. in the right way. Thanks, -- Kenshi Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

