Charset request for iconv (patch included)

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Sun Oct 2 07:56:00 GMT 2016


On Okt 02 2016, dcoffin@shell.cybercom.net wrote:

>      I don't believe there is an official mapping.  The author
> mentions two other mappings and how they differ from his.  He
> also explains why he chose Greek letters over mathematical
> symbols.  (Your Greek sigma looks correct in my editor while
> the math sigma looks like "???", so I can guess which is more
> widely supported.)

Just because some broken programs cannot display the characters should
not be a reason to use a wrong mapping.

Andreas.

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