Is BIG5-2003 (CNS11643) included in iconv?

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Issue

  • Can not use iconv to convert characters from UTF-8 to BIG5-2003.

  • Can not convert some character from UTF-8 to BIG5:

# cat from.txt 
厄夜迷踪
# iconv -f utf-8 -t big5 from.txt 
�̩]�giconv: illegal input sequence at position 9
  • The word '踪' is not included in BIG5 character set, it is inclued by BIG5-2003.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0 ~ 7.5

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