From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:13:01 +0100 From: Robert Raschke MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] slightly OT: tcs or iconv Topicbox-Message-UUID: 70bef5be-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, I am currently investigating how best to cope with multiple character sets. This is on Windows, but I am loathe to get into the what look like exceedingly murky waters of MS character set handling. 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. Thanks for any opinions, Robby -- r dot raschke at tombob dot com