Re: default value of degree_sign on Japanese env.

[Shigeharu T. <sh...@ie...>]

shige 11/05 2011
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Ethan A Merritt <sf...@us...> wrote:
| On Solaris 9 does iconv_open() accept "PCK" as an encoding name?
| We don't care what the name is, we only care that iconv() can use it.

Though Solaris's iconv accepts "PCK", it does not seem to admit
the translation from "ISO-8859-1" to "PCK" unfortunately. 
iconv_open() fails the translation.

GNU iconv may accept "PCK" if it is compiled with "-DUSE_SOLARIS_ALIAS".
It translates 0xb0 to 0x818b correctly.

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