David Starner asks:
> Does anyone know of a general 2022 -> UTF-8 converter?
As Markus already pointed out, there are too many charsets registered
for possible use with ISO-2022. So there would be the need to take a
particular set of encodings and exclude the others. This has already
been done in the X11 area. The beast is called COMPOUND_TEXT. And the
result is that because the set of encodings has been fixed, it cannot
accomodate languages like Laotian, Indic, Vietnamese. Whereas on the
other hand, Unicode is steadily growing and can thus follow the number
of nations connected to the Net.
Btw, a general 2022 -> UTF-8 converter would not be useful for
Japanese people, because ISO-2022-JP is *not* a specialization of
ISO-2022. See RFC 1468.
Bruno
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