>In the iconv command, you can append a //TRANSLIT to the target encoding >to try to substitute some reasonable characters for characters that are >not recognized there. > >It appears that iconv(3) returns EILSEQ in this case. Do we have another >mechanism to implement //TRANSLIT? Seems useful.
Anthony pointed out that //TRANSLIT is a GNU extension (and there are API extensions that GNU iconv provide that give you more control over what exactly happens there) but I don't think we can really depend on that since those are not supported by POSIX. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
