Re: [tlug] Re: UTF-8 Terminal Emulators?

[simon colston <simon@example.com>]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:03:46 +0900 (JST)
Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, A.Sajjad Zaidi wrote:
> 
> > [email encoding]
> 
> The Japanese text you are sending should be encoded as iso-2022-jp (jis) 
> and your mailer should be configured to send the same encoding.  
> 

I'm trying to convert the encoding of japanese email to EUC-JP using libjconv (a convinience wrapper for iconv).

The problem is that single-byte katakana cause mojibake when converting from iso-2022-jp.  Does anyone know the reason for this?

I've discovered that converting the same text from iso-2022-jp-2 works perfectly.  Are the content-type headers lying to me when they say 'charset="iso-2022-jp"'?  Do they really mean 'charset="iso-2022-jp-2"' ??

('mojibake' is proper English, isn't it? :-)

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simon colston