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Re: Question on GB encoding in glibc-2.1.X
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:09:12PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.
>
Thank you very much. I will test it.
> > (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?
>
Sorry, the true path is
ftp://xcin.linux.org.tw/pub/xcin/i18n/i18n_tool.tar.gz
T.H.Hsieh