Re: New Chinese FAQ

> > .. but fixing that brings up another problem. The installation on
> > wwwmaster doesn't support gb_2312-80. It's the standard GNU
> iconv on
> > freebsd (AFAIK), it needs to be one of the charsets supported by it.
> > (The scripts converts it to UTF-8 for presentation inside our
> > framework)
> >
> > (iconv -l should bring it up, if you need it I can send a list of
> > available encodings)
>
> Here's what I see on our FreeBSD server:
>
>     $ iconv -l|grep  -i 2312
>     CHINESE GB_2312-80 ISO-IR-58 CSISO58GB231280
>     CN-GB EUC-CN EUCCN GB2312 CSGB2312
>     HZ HZ-GB-2312
>
> I see "GB2312". What does the "-80" mean in "gb_2312-80"?
> Can we just remove the "-80"?

Hmm. Weird. Mine also shows gb_2312-80 :-) I guess I jumped the gun a
bit.

Ok. Checking further, it seems the file contains characters that are not
gb_2312-80. Try a simple:
iconv -f gb_2312-80 -t utf-8 FAQ_chinese.html > /dev/null

and it'll show you an error.


Whereas:
iconv -f euc-jp -t utf-8 FAQ_japanese.html > /dev/null

works just fine.

//Magnus