[jdom-interest] Fwd: ICU charset mapping table collection online

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

This might be useful input for the recent discussion about entity 
references and figuring out which characters are available in which 
character sets. I do expect that a Java API for this sort of stuff 
will be added in JDK 1.4 soon, but if we do want to support pre-1.4 
JVMs we'll need to roll our own.

>Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:03:05 -0700
>From: Markus Scherer <markus.scherer at jtcsv.com>
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>Subject: ICU charset mapping table collection online
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>Hello,
>
>ICU provides character set conversion with mapping tables for a 
>number of important codepages. The default tables are a subset of 
>IBM's CDRA conversion table repository.
>
>Conversions for most codepages are implemented differently on 
>different platforms. We are providing mapping tables from many 
>different sources so that ICU users and others can use these tables 
>to get the same conversion behavior as on the original platforms.
>
>The mapping tables are checked into a CVS repository which is 
>available via the web.
>We have currently 727 mapping tables (.ucm, some fewer in .xml) in 
>the repository.
>
>For details please see http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/charset/
>
>
>markus
>
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