Re: [li18nux:909] Re: iconv standardization and conformance test suite

[Tom Emerson <tree@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn writes:
> The implementation could be as simple as a little Perl script that reads
> in the Unicode mapping tables, adds a few special tests, and then writes
[snip]

Be aware that the Unicode Technical Committee voted at the last
meeting to discontinue providing mapping tables for "legacy" character
encodings. Only new encodings, like JIS 0213 and GB 18030, will be
supported.

The tables being collected by IBM's ICU team are what should be used
for such a project.

    -tree

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