> Has it ever been considered to (optionally) use the iconv interface for
> character set conversion instead of rolling our own? It seems to be a lot
> more flexible, has pluggable conversion modules (depending on the
> implementation), supports more character sets. It seems to be available
> on quite a few systems, too.
I have not checked iconv seriously since it's not very portable among
our supported platforms.
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Tatsuo Ishii