> Those tables are intended to be a work-around for operating systems with
> bad iconv implementations. I'm sure they could be improved, but I imagine
> Caolan didn't feel like spending a bunch of time reimplementing iconv for
> legacy operating systems (non-Linux ;)
Good, news to me. I shall study to learn more about iconv.
> I'm sure Caolan would not mind improvements to wv (which is a library for
> importing Microsoft Word files).
I will give it a swing!
> For charset issues, as I mentioned before, we might want to consider just
> using this code in wv for more general AbiWord purposes.
I need to use it from the spell part. I will look at wv and see how it's used there
and use it the same way, then "the real" iconv would be used on Linux systems. Is that
correct? Well, I read more about iconv on Linux and it will probably be clear to me.
