Re: Charset request for iconv (patch included)

[Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>]

>      Could you add the eight-bit HP-48 charset to iconv?
> It's Latin-1 plus various Greek letters and mathematical
> symbols, and it's useful for copying files to and from
> the HP-48 series of calculators.  I've written a patch
> and tested it.  (see attached)

Is this an official mapping provided by HP?

>      The "Latin small a with macron" really should be a
> small "x", but Unicode only provides vowels with macrons.
> The website explains why they don't recommend a combining
> macron over a plain "x".

This doesn't look like a good idea at all.  The character should be
added to Unicode instead (if the charset is still in use).

The mapping for ∑ seems incorrect, it uses Σ instead.  The other Greek
letters should perhaps map to mathematic symbols, too, not the Greek
alphabet.

But I'm still not convinced that this character set is relevant enough
for inclusion into glibc.