Re: converting to/from Japanese

["Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>]

At 8:32 PM -0700 7/30/03, Will Leshner wrote:

> Sorry for the formatted email in the last message. I think that
> happened when I copy/pasted the code. Anyway, things seem to work
> much better when I'm using UTF16. So, for example, this works fine:
>
> s = "Ç?Ç?ÇÒǾ"
> s = ConvertEncodings(s, Encodings.UTF16)
> s = ConvertEncoding(s, GetInternetTextEncoding("ISO-2022-JP"))
> s = ConvertEncodings(s, Encodings.UTF16)
>
> And it doesn't take forever to do the conversion either. I should
> probably file a bug report because this does seem wrong.
Well, you can file a bug, but the conversions are provided by the OS.
It's possible (and apparently the case) that it supports conversion
of ISO-2022-JP to/from UTF-16 better than UTF-8.  That's very weird,
though.  What OS is this?

Best,
- Joe

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