[Fedora-i18n-list] Testing Simplified Chinese Input

[Chong Kai Xiong]

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:34 +0800, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Chong,
> 
> Tks for your advice.
> 
> Is it following packages
> - libtext-iconv-perl
> - python2.3-iconvcodec
> 

The iconv program is provided with the glibc-common package. It uses the
glibc implementation of the iconv_* functions (gconv) and is part of
glibc.

> What is it for?  

From rom the iconv(1) manpage:
"iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another"

I normally use it to convert Big5/GB encoded plaintext documents (eg.
HTML, XML, PO, scripts) to UTF-8.

> Is it from Chinese to
> Japanese/Arabic/Indonesian/etc. and vice versa

You would need a language translation program to 'convert' Chinese to
the languages you listed.

The iconv_* functions (therefore iconv), on the other hand, were
designed to deal with conversion of one character encoding to another. 

With gconv (and I suspect any other iconv implementation), the specific
conversions are implemented in gconv via modules. From what I
understand, it is possible to write a module that does language
translation as part of the conversion process, but I don't believe it's
been done.

> > Big5 to UTF-8: 
> >   iconv -f big5 -t utf8 input.txt > output.txt
> 
> e.g.
> File to be encoded = AAA.doc (Big5)
> Output file = BBB.doc (utf8)
> 
> Whether to run
> iconv -f big5 -t utf8 AAA.doc > BBB.doc

Yup, that is correct :)

> TIA
> 
> B.R.
> Stephen

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