List of characters which fails round-trip encoding with iconv

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Are there a list of characters that cannot re-encode to Shift JIS(cp932)? Some characters cause errors when round-trip encoding with iconv (ex. Shift JIS -> UTF-8 -> Shift JIS).

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • glibc
  • iconv

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