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Subject: Re: [PATCH] t8005: use more portable character encoding names
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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> ...  I hesitate to send it since it does not actually allow any
> tests to pass which were previously failing for me.  At least the utf-8 to
> UTF-8 shouldn't cause any harm.  The shift-jis to SJIS seems to be commonly
> supported?  at least IRIX 6.5 and Solaris as old as 7 recognize it, but the
> evidence is only empirical.  Modern Solaris, and of course Linux recognize
> either.

Perhaps the test can be changed from using cp1251 (whatever that is) to
something more common (e.g. 8859-1)?

There was another more large-ish patch to the tests around this area
recently from you.  I liked them but somehow failed to queue any of them
yet, sorry.