iconv -f IBM-943 -t IBM-930 INPUT_IBM943.txt > OUTPUT_IBM930.txt But the unnecessary Shift In "0F" that contorl character is inserted. As the results the converted character makes unexpected sentence. OUTPUT_IBM930.txt is also in attached file. it is generated from the iconv command. Double "0f 0f" appear in address as following. #hexdump -C OUTPUT_IBM930.txt |less 0005fff0 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 f2 f0 f1 f4 0e 45 60 0f 0f |@@@@@@@.....E`..| 0008fff0 5c 42 5c 42 5c 42 5c 42 5c 42 5c 42 5c 0f 0f 40 |\B\B\B\B\B\B\..@| 005bfff0 61 0f f2 f0 0e 45 62 0f 0f 40 40 40 40 40 40 40 |a....Eb..@@@@@@@| control character shift-out "0e" and shift-in "0f" should appear as this. 000017e0 0e 45 60 0f f0 f6 0e 45 61 0f 40 40 40 40 40 40 |.E`....Ea.@@@@@@| "0e" and "0f" are need to be paired. NOTE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_in shift-out control character is "0x0E". shift-in control character is "0x0F". Windows OS uses codeset IBM-943. It is IBM OS/2 Japanese, superset of Cp932 and Shift-JIS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS z/OS and AIX uses codeset IBM-930. It is EBCDIC Character Code. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_930 Reproducible: Always https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=886416
Created attachment 382750 [details] bug-886416_data.zip
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