Does anyone know of work underway to provide these for Linux?
See http://www.opengroup.org/ot/search.htm ==> search for 'iconv'
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hpa writes:
> ext2, like any POSIX-compatible filesystem, can handle any character
> set encoding as long as it doesn't mess with the byte encodings of
> '\0' (0x00) and '/' (0x2f). Any ISO 646 (including ASCII) character
> set, any ISO 8859 (including Latin-1) character set, or UTF-8 all have
> this property. In fact, this was a major impetus for the creation of
> UTF-8.