[commit-cp] [bug #13111] Classes in gnu.java.nio.charset.iconv should be extendable

[Ito Kazumitsu]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #13111 (project classpath):

Hi Sven, Thank you for taking care of my problem.

> 1) Fix the iconv library. This isn't really a bug in the classpath code.

Actually, there exsists unofficial patches to iconv which makes
iconv handle Japanese characters preferrably.

The problem involving only Japanese users, applying those patches wolud
be the simplest solution.

But I do not like applying those unofficial patches, and I cannot
expect them to become official.

> 2) Write a java SJIS converter, and do it correctly. My plan is to have
java
> converters for all the charsets Java supports natively. So this will need
to
> be done sooner or later. GCJ has their own SJIS converter we could perhaps
> port or use.

Only SJIS is OK, but having java converters for all the charsets Java
supports would be a very hard work beyond my imagination.



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