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changeset 11911:d6806d72a21a
Mention indirect conversion problem.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:02 +0200 |
parents | 32fc3a6c4499 |
children | ba1f5a03459a |
files | ChangeLog doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-08-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi: Mention indirect conversion + problem. + 2009-08-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> Work around iconv_open problem on Solaris.
--- a/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi @@ -38,5 +38,11 @@ MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS, when GNU libiconv is not installed. @item +For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B, +although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This +occurs on some platforms: Solaris 10. --- Gnulib provides a higher-level +facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with +this problem. +@item The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent. @end itemize