Has it ever been considered to (optionally) use the iconv interface for
character set conversion instead of rolling our own? It seems to be a lot
more flexible, has pluggable conversion modules (depending on the
implementation), supports more character sets. It seems to be available
on quite a few systems, too.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
