Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2-9 Severity: normal
Hi, according to http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html iconv_open should accept "char" as a character set. To be more speicific from that site: Locale dependent, in terms of char or wchar_t (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with semantics depending on the OS and the current LC_CTYPE locale facet) char, wchar_t And a little bit down the page: The empty encoding name "" is equivalent to "char": it denotes the locale dependent character encoding. "" and "wchar_t" are accepted (no error) but "char" isn't, although it should be equal to "". A bug report about the outdated iconv_open manpage is already filed. The little program, I used to check: --------------------snip------------------------------ #include <iconv.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> int main () { iconv_t cd; printf("\"char\" -> \"UTF-16\"\n"); if ((cd=iconv_open("UTF-16","char"))==(iconv_t)-1) { printf("Error on text conversion: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } printf("\"\" -> \"UTF-16\"\n"); if ((cd=iconv_open("UTF-16",""))==(iconv_t)-1) { printf("Error on text conversion: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } printf("\"wchar_t\" -> \"UTF-16\"\n"); if ((cd=iconv_open("UTF-16","wchar_t"))==(iconv_t)-1) { printf("Error on text conversion: %s\n", strerror(errno)); } } --------------------snip------------------------------ Output is: "char" -> "UTF-16" Error on text conversion: Invalid argument "" -> "UTF-16" "wchar_t" -> "UTF-16" Hendrik Sattler -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux linux 2.4.22 #2 Di Aug 26 20:38:51 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (ignored: LC_ALL set to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Versions of packages libc6 depends on: ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
