Re: Iconv vs. Unicode::* (was Re: several fixes)

On 18.04.01 at 21:49, Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com> wrote:

>I had another look at the Unicode::* stuff today, and found a new
>Unicode::MapUTF8 module that provides a common interface to Unicode::Map8,
>Unicode::Map (including the important Chinese encodings), and Jcode
>(Japanese encodings).  I think I would switch to using this for the WDG
>HTML Validator except that EUC_KR support seems to be missing, and so I'd
>still need to bother with CJKVconv.pl or something similar.

link@tux:~<1>link@tux:~<5>cat /etc/issue
Red Hat Linux release 7.0 (Guinness)
Kernel 2.2.17-14smp on an i686
link@tux:~<2>rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2-12
link@tux:~<3>iconv --list
The following list contain all the coded character sets known.  This does
not necessarily mean that all combinations of these names can be used for
the FROM and TO command line parameters.  One coded character set can be
listed with several different names (aliases).

437, 500, 500V1, 850, 851, 852, 855, 856, 857, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864,
865, 866, 869, 874, 904, 1026, 1046, 1047, 8859_1, 8859_2, 8859_3, 8859_4,
8859_5, 8859_6, 8859_7, 8859_8, 8859_9, 10646-1:1993, 10646-1:1993/UCS4,
ANSI_X3.4-1968, ANSI_X3.4-1986, ANSI_X3.4, ANSI_X3.110-1983, ANSI_X3.110,
ARABIC, ARABIC7, ASCII, ASMO-708, ASMO_449, BALTIC, BIG-5, BIG-FIVE, BIG5,
BIG5HKSCS, BIGFIVE, BS_4730, CA, CN-BIG5, CN-GB, CN, CP-AR, CP-GR, CP-HU,
CP037, CP038, CP273, CP274, CP275, CP278, CP280, CP281, CP284, CP285,
CP290, CP297, CP367, CP420, CP423, CP424, CP437, CP500, CP737, CP775,
CP819, CP850, CP851, CP852, CP855, CP856, CP857, CP860, CP861, CP862,
CP863, CP864, CP865, CP866, CP868, CP869, CP870, CP871, CP874, CP875,
CP880, CP891, CP903, CP904, CP905, CP918, CP922, CP930, CP932, CP933,
CP935, CP936, CP937, CP939, CP949, CP950, CP1004, CP1026, CP1046, CP1047,
CP1124, CP1129, CP1250, CP1251, CP1252, CP1253, CP1254, CP1255, CP1256,
CP1257, CP1258, CP1361, CPIBM861, CSA7-1, CSA7-2, CSASCII, CSA_T500-1983,
CSA_T500, CSA_Z243.4-1985-1, CSA_Z243.4-1985-2, CSDECMCS, CSEBCDICATDE,
CSEBCDICATDEA, CSEBCDICCAFR, CSEBCDICDKNO, CSEBCDICDKNOA, CSEBCDICES,
CSEBCDICESA, CSEBCDICESS, CSEBCDICFISE, CSEBCDICFISEA, CSEBCDICFR,
CSEBCDICIT, CSEBCDICPT, CSEBCDICUK, CSEBCDICUS, CSEUCKR,
CSEUCPKDFMTJAPANESE, CSGB2312, CSHPROMAN8, CSIBM037, CSIBM038, CSIBM273,
CSIBM274, CSIBM275, CSIBM277, CSIBM278, CSIBM280, CSIBM281, CSIBM284,
CSIBM285, CSIBM290, CSIBM297, CSIBM420, CSIBM423, CSIBM424, CSIBM500,
CSIBM851, CSIBM855, CSIBM856, CSIBM857, CSIBM860, CSIBM863, CSIBM864,
CSIBM865, CSIBM866, CSIBM868, CSIBM869, CSIBM870, CSIBM871, CSIBM880,
CSIBM891, CSIBM903, CSIBM904, CSIBM905, CSIBM918, CSIBM922, CSIBM930,
CSIBM933, CSIBM935, CSIBM937, CSIBM939, CSIBM1026, CSIBM1124, CSIBM1129,
CSISO4UNITEDKINGDOM, CSISO10SWEDISH, CSISO11SWEDISHFORNAMES,
CSISO14JISC6220RO, CSISO15ITALIAN, CSISO16PORTUGESE, CSISO17SPANISH,
CSISO18GREEK7OLD, CSISO19LATINGREEK, CSISO21GERMAN, CSISO25FRENCH,
CSISO27LATINGREEK1, CSISO49INIS, CSISO50INIS8, CSISO51INISCYRILLIC,
CSISO58GB1988, CSISO60DANISHNORWEGIAN, CSISO60NORWEGIAN1,
CSISO61NORWEGIAN2, CSISO69FRENCH, CSISO84PORTUGUESE2, CSISO85SPANISH2,
CSISO86HUNGARIAN, CSISO88GREEK7, CSISO89ASMO449, CSISO90,
CSISO92JISC62991984B, CSISO99NAPLPS, CSISO103T618BIT, CSISO111ECMACYRILLIC,
CSISO121CANADIAN1, CSISO122CANADIAN2, CSISO139CSN369103, CSISO141JUSIB1002,
CSISO143IECP271, CSISO150, CSISO150GREEKCCITT, CSISO151CUBA,
CSISO153GOST1976874, CSISO646DANISH, CSISO2022CN, CSISO2022JP,
CSISO2022JP2, CSISO2022KR, CSISO2033, CSISO5427CYRILLIC,
CSISO5427CYRILLIC1981, CSISO5428GREEK, CSISO10367BOX, CSISOLATIN1,
CSISOLATIN2, CSISOLATIN3, CSISOLATIN4, CSISOLATIN5, CSISOLATIN6,
CSISOLATINARABIC, CSISOLATINCYRILLIC, CSISOLATINGREEK, CSISOLATINHEBREW,
CSKOI8R, CSKSC5636, CSMACINTOSH, CSNATSDANO, CSNATSSEFI, CSN_369103,
CSPC8CODEPAGE437, CSPC775BALTIC, CSPC850MULTILINGUAL, CSPC862LATINHEBREW,
CSPCP852, CSSHIFTJIS, CSUCS4, CSUNICODE, CUBA, CWI-2, CWI, CYRILLIC, DE,
DEC-MCS, DEC, DIN_66003, DK, DS2089, DS_2089, E13B, EBCDIC-AT-DE-A,
EBCDIC-AT-DE, EBCDIC-BE, EBCDIC-BR, EBCDIC-CA-FR, EBCDIC-CP-AR1,
EBCDIC-CP-AR2, EBCDIC-CP-BE, EBCDIC-CP-CA, EBCDIC-CP-CH, EBCDIC-CP-DK,
EBCDIC-CP-ES, EBCDIC-CP-FI, EBCDIC-CP-FR, EBCDIC-CP-GB, EBCDIC-CP-GR,
EBCDIC-CP-HE, EBCDIC-CP-IS, EBCDIC-CP-IT, EBCDIC-CP-NL, EBCDIC-CP-NO,
EBCDIC-CP-ROECE, EBCDIC-CP-SE, EBCDIC-CP-TR, EBCDIC-CP-US, EBCDIC-CP-WT,
EBCDIC-CP-YU, EBCDIC-CYRILLIC, EBCDIC-DK-NO-A, EBCDIC-DK-NO, EBCDIC-ES-A,
EBCDIC-ES-S, EBCDIC-ES, EBCDIC-FI-SE-A, EBCDIC-FI-SE, EBCDIC-FR,
EBCDIC-GREEK, EBCDIC-INT, EBCDIC-INT1, EBCDIC-IS-FRISS, EBCDIC-IT,
EBCDIC-JP-E, EBCDIC-JP-KANA, EBCDIC-PT, EBCDIC-UK, EBCDIC-US, ECMA-114,
ECMA-118, ECMA-CYRILLIC, ELOT_928, ES, ES2, EUC-CN, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW,
EUCCN, EUCJP, EUCKR, EUCTW, FI, FR, GB, GB2312, GB13000, GB18030, GBK,
GB_1988-80, GOST_19768-74, GOST_19768, GREEK-CCITT, GREEK, GREEK7-OLD,
GREEK7, GREEK8, HEBREW, HP-ROMAN8, HU, IBM-856, IBM-922, IBM-930, IBM-933,
IBM-935, IBM-937, IBM-939, IBM-1046, IBM-1124, IBM-1129, IBM037, IBM038,
IBM256, IBM273, IBM274, IBM275, IBM277, IBM278, IBM280, IBM281, IBM284,
IBM285, IBM290, IBM297, IBM367, IBM420, IBM423, IBM424, IBM437, IBM500,
IBM775, IBM819, IBM850, IBM851, IBM852, IBM855, IBM856, IBM857, IBM860,
IBM861, IBM862, IBM863, IBM864, IBM865, IBM866, IBM868, IBM869, IBM870,
IBM871, IBM874, IBM875, IBM880, IBM891, IBM903, IBM904, IBM905, IBM918,
IBM922, IBM930, IBM933, IBM935, IBM937, IBM939, IBM1004, IBM1026, IBM1046,
IBM1047, IBM1124, IBM1129, IEC_P27-1, INIS-8, INIS-CYRILLIC, INIS,
ISIRI-3342, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP,
ISO-2022-KR, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5,
ISO-8859-6, ISO-8859-7, ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11,
ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-8859-16, ISO-10646,
ISO-10646/UCS2, ISO-10646/UCS4, ISO-10646/UTF-8, ISO-10646/UTF8, ISO-IR-4,
ISO-IR-6, ISO-IR-8-1, ISO-IR-9-1, ISO-IR-10, ISO-IR-11, ISO-IR-14,
ISO-IR-15, ISO-IR-16, ISO-IR-17, ISO-IR-18, ISO-IR-19, ISO-IR-21,
ISO-IR-25, ISO-IR-27, ISO-IR-37, ISO-IR-49, ISO-IR-50, ISO-IR-51,
ISO-IR-54, ISO-IR-55, ISO-IR-57, ISO-IR-60, ISO-IR-61, ISO-IR-69,
ISO-IR-84, ISO-IR-85, ISO-IR-86, ISO-IR-88, ISO-IR-89, ISO-IR-90,
ISO-IR-92, ISO-IR-98, ISO-IR-99, ISO-IR-100, ISO-IR-101, ISO-IR-103,
ISO-IR-109, ISO-IR-110, ISO-IR-111, ISO-IR-121, ISO-IR-122, ISO-IR-126,
ISO-IR-127, ISO-IR-138, ISO-IR-139, ISO-IR-141, ISO-IR-143, ISO-IR-144,
ISO-IR-148, ISO-IR-150, ISO-IR-151, ISO-IR-153, ISO-IR-155, ISO-IR-156,
ISO-IR-157, ISO-IR-166, ISO-IR-179, ISO-IR-193, ISO-IR-197, ISO-IR-199,
ISO-IR-203, ISO-IR-226, ISO646-CA, ISO646-CA2, ISO646-CN, ISO646-CU,
ISO646-DE, ISO646-DK, ISO646-ES, ISO646-ES2, ISO646-FI, ISO646-FR,
ISO646-FR1, ISO646-GB, ISO646-HU, ISO646-IT, ISO646-JP-OCR-B, ISO646-JP,
ISO646-KR, ISO646-NO, ISO646-NO2, ISO646-PT, ISO646-PT2, ISO646-SE,
ISO646-SE2, ISO646-US, ISO646-YU, ISO6937, ISO_646.IRV:1991, ISO_2033-1983,
ISO_2033, ISO_5427-EXT, ISO_5427, ISO_5427:1981, ISO_5428, ISO_5428:1980,
ISO_6937-2, ISO_6937-2:1983, ISO_6937, ISO_6937:1992, ISO_8859-1,
ISO_8859-1:1987, ISO_8859-2, ISO_8859-2:1987, ISO_8859-3, ISO_8859-3:1988,
ISO_8859-4, ISO_8859-4:1988, ISO_8859-5, ISO_8859-5:1988, ISO_8859-6,
ISO_8859-6:1987, ISO_8859-7, ISO_8859-7:1987, ISO_8859-8, ISO_8859-8:1988,
ISO_8859-9, ISO_8859-9:1989, ISO_8859-10, ISO_8859-10:1992,
ISO_8859-14:1998, ISO_8859-15:1998, ISO_9036, ISO_10367-BOX, IT,
JIS_C6220-1969-RO, JIS_C6229-1984-B, JOHAB, JP-OCR-B, JP, JS, JUS_I.B1.002,
KOI-7, KOI-8, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KSC5636, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, L10,
LATIN-GREEK-1, LATIN-GREEK, LATIN1, LATIN2, LATIN3, LATIN4, LATIN5, LATIN6,
LATIN7, LATIN8, LATIN10, MAC-IS, MAC-UK, MAC, MACINTOSH, MS-ANSI, MS-ARAB,
MS-CYRL, MS-EE, MS-GREEK, MS-HEBR, MS-TURK, MSCP949, MSCP1361, MSZ_7795.3,
MS_KANJI, NAPLPS, NATS-DANO, NATS-SEFI, NC_NC00-10, NC_NC00-10:81,
NF_Z_62-010, NF_Z_62-010_(1973), NF_Z_62-010_1973, NO, NO2, NS_4551-1,
NS_4551-2, OS2LATIN1, OSF00010001, OSF00010002, OSF00010003, OSF00010004,
OSF00010005, OSF00010006, OSF00010007, OSF00010008, OSF00010009,
OSF0001000A, OSF00010020, OSF00010100, OSF00010101, OSF00010102,
OSF00010104, OSF00010105, OSF00010106, OSF00030010, OSF0004000A,
OSF0005000A, OSF05010001, OSF100201A4, OSF100201A8, OSF100201B5,
OSF100201F4, OSF100203B5, OSF1002011C, OSF1002011D, OSF1002035D,
OSF1002035E, OSF1002035F, OSF1002036B, OSF1002037B, OSF10010001,
OSF10020025, OSF10020111, OSF10020115, OSF10020116, OSF10020118,
OSF10020122, OSF10020129, OSF10020352, OSF10020354, OSF10020357,
OSF10020359, OSF10020360, OSF10020364, OSF10020365, OSF10020366,
OSF10020367, OSF10020370, OSF10020387, OSF10020388, OSF10020396,
OSF10020402, OSF10020417, PT, PT2, R8, ROMAN8, SE, SE2, SEN_850200_B,
SEN_850200_C, SHIFT-JIS, SHIFT_JIS, SJIS, SS636127, ST_SEV_358-88,
T.61-8BIT, T.61, TIS-620, TIS620-0, TIS620.2529-1, TIS620.2533-0, TIS620,
UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE, UCS2, UCS4, UHC, UJIS,
UK, UNICODE, UNICODEBIG, UNICODELITTLE, US-ASCII, US, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16,
UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF8, VISCII, WCHAR_T, WIN-SAMI-2, WINBALTRIM,
WINDOWS-1250, WINDOWS-1251, WINDOWS-1252, WINDOWS-1253, WINDOWS-1254,
WINDOWS-1255, WINDOWS-1256, WINDOWS-1257, WINDOWS-1258, WS2, YU
link@tux:~<4>

Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2001 22:07:42 UTC