[cups.general] Character set encoding names

[Michael Sweet]

Tim Waugh wrote:
> ...
> 1. Are filters expected to be able to use $CHARSET as an encoding name
> suitable to passing to iconv_open(), and if not how are they meant to
> interpret them?

CHARSET will be the ISO-registered name for the character set,
which rarely is the same as the locale's charset name.  To make
matters worse, some character sets are known by multiple names.

> 2. Should CUPS ship a windows-932 charset file, or is it a bug that
> texttops looks for one?

texttops currently does not support double-byte or variable-byte
text encodings other than UTF-8, thus there is no file for windows-932
aka Shift JIS aka WINDOWS-31J.

Feel free to file a feature request for this, however due to the
amount of work needed it will not likely be addressed until CUPS 1.4.

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