Re: about iconv,please help.

[Robert Brady <robert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, caoz wrote:

>     I want to translate text file from GB code to BIG5 code on linux
> plateform, so I use "iconv -f GB -t BIG5 -o test.big5 test.GB", in
> test.GB, only two GB words, and this command returns " iconv: illegal
> input sequence at position 0" I don't know why ,please tell me how I
> can perform this operation, please reply me to tradeuser@xxxxxxxxx
> thanks.

Try using "EUC-CN" not "GB". Iconv thinks that GB means a version of
ASCII that was once used in Britain.

But if you do this, it will probably not work, because iconv doesn't know
how to convert simplified characters to traditional ones. Someone else on
this list may know how to do this...

-- 
Robert


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