The encoding 646 once again

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri Mar 15 07:17:00 GMT 2002


>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Kahlert <martin.kahlert@infineon.com> writes:

Martin> Once upon a time i complaint about Sun Solaris' inability to
Martin> provide a working iconv implementation which caused my
Martin> application to try to find the 646 encoding about some million
Martin> times - it was not that fast.

Martin> Now i have to give gcj --encoding=UTF-8 in order to work on
Martin> Solaris otherwise it says hello.java:0: unknown encoding:
Martin> `646'.

Does using --encoding=ASCII work for you?  My understanding is that
646 is ASCII.  If `--encoding=ASCII' doesn't work then we'd need to
add more code.  If it does work then we just have to add alias
capability.  I think that is probably reasonable.

Tom



More information about the Java mailing list