using ICONV

[rakesh patel]

I need to create a .ICONV file for UTF-8 to
ISO8859-1. Is there a good example of how to do this. Or is there a .ICONV file I can download?

[Keith Cayemberg]

I believe Craig Berry made some relevant comments about this here...

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/freetds/2003q4/014186.html


Cheers!

Keith

[rakesh patel]

I was just looking at that.
So I need to install the "internationalization kit"?

Regards
Rakesh

[Keith Cayemberg]

There is also a previous ICONV discussion in ITRC that is relatively comprehensive here...
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=726740

And the HP documentation here...

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=726740

Cheers!

[Keith Cayemberg]

Yes, you must install the internationalization kit in order to get the UTF-8 conversions.

Cheers!

[Keith Cayemberg]

Sorry, I messed-up on the cut&paste of the HP documentation...

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/73final/6494/6494pro.html#overview_chap

[rakesh patel]

Hello,
I have another question. I'm probably doing something stupid but...
I now have the internationaliztionm kit installed, so I have all the .ICONV files.
I'm reading a UTF-8 encoded message, which I try to converted using iconv.

However the output buffer after calling iconv contains nothing, but the inbytesleft is 0, so all characters should have been converted.

Regards
Rakesh