Public bug reported: Tool "iconv" suffers from the stdio buffering problem described here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14472179/how-do-i-perform-a -streaming-character-conversion Basically, when piping to iconv in an interactive session, output stutters. Tool "stdbuf" does not help. From the page above: "But it looks like iconv is managing the buffering internally itself - it's nothing to do with the Linux pipe buffer." Solutions are described in this page: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/stdio_buffering/ iconv should have a command-line switch to help. From the page above: "Note tail's stdout buffer would also have this problem, but tail -f calls fflush on the stdout stream when new data is received to alleviate this (as do tcpdump -l, grep --line-buffered and sed --unbuffered for example)." ** Affects: eglibc (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568726 Title: iconv stdio buffering To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1568726/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
