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From: antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch)
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Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 03:26:40 -0000 (UTC)
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> 
> Maybe if you actually wanted to contribute something useful to the C 
> world - something that other people might find useful - you could put 
> your efforts into writing a library that has functions for converting 
> encodings back and forth with UTF-8 as the base.  Include support for 
> the dozen different EDBDIC versions.

AFAICS librecode already exists and can do this.

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                              Waldek Hebisch