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Re: libgcj/9715: Not all required character encodings are supported
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: jmr at ugcs dot caltech dot edu (Jesse Rosenstock)
- Cc: mark at klomp dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 20 Feb 2003 19:12:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: libgcj/9715: Not all required character encodings are supported
- References: <20030220100131.AAEA584054@euro.ugcs.caltech.edu>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Jesse" == Jesse Rosenstock <jmr at ugcs dot caltech dot edu> writes:
Jesse> In writing my patch to make String.getBytes use the java.nio encoders,
Jesse> I noticed that (at least on my redhat 7.2 system) the iconv based
Jesse> converter supports UTF-16, UnicodeBig, UnicodeLittle, UTF-16BE, and
Jesse> UTF-16LE; it just encodes these incorrectly, only encoding the first
Jesse> character and not putting a byte order mark. Perhaps someone wants to
Jesse> look at that.
Could you submit a libgcj PR for that?
If this is required by Java but not implemented by iconv, then we need
to either write our own converters for these cases, or add a special
case of another kind somewhere.
Tom