From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2003-01-28T22:22:27+09:00
Subject: Re: euc-jp coding of ruby talk web interface

Rudolf Polzer <AntiATField_adsgohere@durchnull.de> writes:

> Is UTF-8 a superset of EUC-JP, 

UTF-8 is an encoding for the Unicode character set. EUC-JP is an
encoding for at least 4 character sets, of which all are subsets of
the Unicode character set. So, the character set representable by
UTF-8 is a superset of the character sets representable by EUC-JP.

Conversion between a EUC-JP string to an equivalent UTF-8 string is a
beast as one has to use a conversion table. The good thing is, I think
I've seen at least one ruby module that does such conversion, iconv,
which interfaces with the iconv*() functions found in modern unix. The
downside is, iconv may be a unix-only thingie.

YS.