Re: iconv message suppression

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Alex Kiesel <kiesel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > It's not so good to use ucs2 for utf16 but it can work...
> 
> Is there any other way to convert the data?

I think Frediano is referring to the fact that UCS-2 and UTF-16 overlap
but differ.  

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#ucsutf

If unichar data are actually encoded in UTF-16, they may theoretically
include characters off the Basic Multilingual Plane.  Such characters are
encoded in UTF-16 as two 16-bit "surrogate" characters, which obviously
shouldn't be interpreted as two UCS-2 characters.  

The question is, can the server actually deliver/accept non-BMP
characters?  If not, we can pretend we're dealing with UCS-2 data.  Else
we have to do it right, to do it right.  ;-)

Regards, 

--jkl