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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] slightly OT: tcs or iconv
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 12:59:11 -0400
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> Since I use Plan 9 at home, I am familiar with the wonderful
> simplicity of tcs, so I am wondering, has anybody got some thoughts on
> the benefits of tcs over iconv?  I feel inclined to go with tcs
> because I can understand what it is doing by reading the code (and I
> feel confident that I can get it built on Windows).  With iconv this
> is a lot harder (my brain is not big enough for all the gnuisms) and I
> would stick to using it as a black box.

if tcs works for you and iconv scares you, the choice is simple.

russ