Bug#588991: libc-bin: iconv doesn't document the meaning of ambiguous encoding names such as UNICODE
severity 588991 wishlist tag 588991 + wontfix thanks On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:33:36PM -0600, Neil Mayhew wrote: Package: libc-bin Version: 2.11.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Encoding names like UNICODE and UCS-2 are ambiguous because the byte order isn't specified. It could be whatever is native for the platform, or it could be a canonical, host-independent order such as big-endian. This should be clarified somewhere. This is not ambiguous, the byte order is either little endian (UCS2-LE, UNICODELITTLE), big endian (UCS2-BE, UNICODEBIG), or native (UCS2, UNICODE). All of these formats are listed in iconv -l. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#588991: libc-bin: iconv doesn't document the meaning of ambiguous encoding names such as UNICODE
Package: libc-bin Version: 2.11.2-2 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Encoding names like UNICODE and UCS-2 are ambiguous because the byte order isn't specified. It could be whatever is native for the platform, or it could be a canonical, host-independent order such as big-endian. This should be clarified somewhere. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- Configuration Files: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf changed: -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
