Adding new IBM extended charsets (original) (raw)

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Mon Aug 6 13:01:31 UTC 2018

On 07/06/2018 02:23 PM, Nasser Ebrahim wrote:

Hi Florian,

Thank you for your response. iconv is platform dependent and not good for the platform agnostic nature of Java. Also, many charsets in Java are not available across platforms. I believe Java decided to have its own charsets due to those reasons so that it can work seamlessly on any supported platforms.

But then the tables will occasionally be different from what the platform uses for conversation. Wouldn't be compatibility with the rest of the system installation be preferred in this context?

Thanks, Florian

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