Re: Question on GB encoding in glibc-2.1.X

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>]

Tung-Han Hsieh <thhsieh@linux.org.tw> writes:

> I want to test the GB code locale on glibc-2.1.1. This GB code is
> usually used in Mainland China, with the locale name zh_CN.GB2312.
> I found one file named "libGB.so" in /usr/lib/gconv/ directory, 
> but no file like "GB2312.so" or "GB.so". 

GB2312 is only an encoding.  Coded character sets using GB2312 are
EUC-CN and ISO-2022-JP.  ISO-2022-CN would also be available if I
would have the necessary data for the CNS charsets.

If GB2312 *is* a coded character set please provide me with the data.

> So I would like to ask that does glibc-2.1.X currently support GB 
> encoding? I mean, can we use wcstombs() & mbstowcs() functions to
> convert GB code string successfully? If yes, how can I do that?

If you select

	zh_ZN.EUC-CN

it should work.

> (We have a zh_CN.GB2312 locale data for test. If any one want to
>  test it, you can get it from
> 
> 	ftp://xcin.linux.org.tw/pub/xcin/xcin/i18n/i18n_tool.tar.gz
> 
>  In this tarball, the zh_CN.GB2312 subdirectory contains the appreciated
>  locale data.)

There is no such file.  Maybe you mistypes the path?

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