Re: Call For Votes: converting log messages to UTF-8

On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 13:38, Greg Stein wrote:
> Converting from charset FOO to UTF-8 is a specific translation. No data
> loss. Converting from UTF-8 back to FOO is a perfect restoration.

Hm, is this always true?

For instance, a Shift-JIS document could have redundant shift octets.
(Is that invalid? If so, does an iconv() from Shift-JIS to UTF-8
actually enforce that?) Converting such a document to UTF-8 and back is
presumably not an identity transformation on the octets. If the source
document was not actually in Shift-JIS but was in some other character
set, you could lose data.

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Received on Sat Jun 1 14:11:41 2002