Roozbeh Pournader wrote on 2001-05-08 18:29 UTC:
> Well, this is rather a newbie question. We were trying to use glibc 2.2's
> iconv to convert an input UTF-8 stream to our internal UCS4. But it came
> out that it gives us little-endian UCS4 instead of a big-endian one we
> needed for internal processing on our PC. Which of the following solutions
> is better/more beautiful/more portable/etc?
The iconv 2.2.2 that is shipping at the moment with Red Hat 7.1 supports
UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE,
WCHAR_T
Looks rather comprehensive to me. Just use that. In case of doubt,
upgrade glibc.
Markus
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