Subj : Re: UTF vs specific
To   : Karel Kral
From : Eugene Subbotin
Date : Sun Sep 20 2026 11:19 am

Hello Karel!

Sunday September 20 2026 07:51, you wrote to me:

 KK>>> What must be done: 1) add CP895 into iconv and 2) get Golded+
 KK>>> working with 1byte against UTF and back conversion

 ES>> No one will ever add this encoding to iconv or the Windows
 ES>> distribution: itīs used too rarely. Reversible encoding should
 ES>> work, so this encoding can be used with a conversion table.

 KK> Somebody told me "never say never" ;-) In use of linux - why I could
 KK> not add module in gconv by myself? Not sure about Windows nor OS/2.

 KK> Again, thank you for your work.

Of course in Linux, you can write whatever you want for yourself. But I'm not 
sure that code like this will ever be accepted into the upstream repository. In 
Windows and OS/2, the set of included charsets is determined by Microsoft and 
IBM.

Eugene

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