Re: [xml] OS/390 compatibility (EBCDIC)

[Adrian Bunk <bunk stusta de>]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:05:18AM +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Hi, Alon,
> Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Trying to compile on OS/390, it should work, right?
> >
> > I am getting:
> > ---
> > $ ../../dep/bin/xmllint --version
> > ../../dep/bin/xmllint: using libxml version 20707
> >     compiled with: Iconv ISO8859X
> So far so good but what about iconv ?
> Is it from gnu libc or external (standalone) from libiconv. The second  
> didn't support EBCDIC{xxx}.

iconv is not GNU specific, and the OS/390 implementation should
support EBCDIC.

> > $ ../../dep/bin/xmllint sample.xml
> > sample.xml:1: parser error : encoding not supported EBCDIC
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ebcdic"?>
>
> So if libiconv support EBCDIC then no idea.
> ...

If the iconv implementation supports both EBCDIC and UTF-8 it should be 
checked whether it supports direct conversion between them.

> Roumen

cu
Adrian

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