> iconv should not to smart guessing for 7 bit section of each traditional
> encodings which was ASCII compatible.  They should be same in that 7 bit
> section.
> 
> For all popular C/perl/shell/... programs written originally in
> shift-jis  should not break if iconv is used to convert them in UTF-8.

Use 'cp932' (or 'windows-31j') instead of shift-jis.
IMO libc6 implements the "Shift-JIS to Unicode" mapping defined by
Unicode Inc. in the right way.

Thanks,
-- 
Kenshi Muto
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