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Subject:	Re: Cygwin util replacing win-util for UCS-2 -> UTF-8; utf8 support (redux)
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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Yuck.  Why don't you just use iconv instead?
>   
Cuz, I thought it was only a library? :-?

Cuz I already know windows starts in UCS-2 and know the codepage
for UTF-8 (65001).  With iconv, I don't know off the top of my head
where to look for what document that specifies the strings to use
for input and output.  Output is likely utf-8 or utf8, but it might
require uppercase.  I don't think UCS-2 is a unicode input charset,
so I'd have to semi-lie to iconv and tell it utf16, but that's no
worse than the windows method, where the "lie" is implicit.

But thanks for the new pointer... something else to learn & use...


linda


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