Character set conversions

[Sean Kelly]

I suggest looking into ICU if you're doing this stuff.  I believe there's even a wrapper somewhere in the Mango tree on DSource.

On May 29, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

> I've encountered some problems with other charsets recently. Phobos has
> a std.encoding that can do some useful stuff, but there's some
> encodings I've seen in the wild that it can't handle (indeed, it's
> a fairly short list that it does support)
> 
> I used gnu iconv for one of my projects and it works for me, but
> I wonder:
> 
> Is anyone planning to add more charset support to Phobos?
> (alternatively, am I missing something already there?)
> 
> 
> If no, maybe I'll do a few myself. I've never actually written code
> to do this, but it can't be rocket science. I suspect it's more
> tedious than anything else.