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Re: Question about iconv, UTF 8/16/32 and error reporting due to UTF-16 surrogates.

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, Stefan Liebler <stli at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 16:22:31 +0200
Subject: Re: Question about iconv, UTF 8/16/32 and error reporting due to UTF-16 surrogates.
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On 12/03/2015 11:49 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015, Florian Weimer wrote:

The question is what glibc should doâimplement historic definitions,
preserving the meaning of charset names for backwards compatibility, or
tweak the implementations as the definitions evolve.


I think we need to implement the current meanings of those names.


Makes sense.  I have reopened bug 2373.

Thanks,
Florian

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