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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: iconv "versions"
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:23:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:48:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <usvnq9$1r7ed$1@dont-email.me>:

> So I'm writing code that calls iconv(3), and it's reading a file encoded
> in an ISO-8859-1 character set and converting to UTF-8, and it keeps
> complaining about "invalid multibyte sequence".
> 
> I'm pounding my head trying to debug the issue, goo-goo'ing for related
> issues,
> even trying a different implemenation.
> 
> I give up, commit the code to my home "server" on the "Ubuntu" laptop.
> 
> Later, I fire up the "Arch" laptop, pull the code, build it, run it, and
> run the test script. No problem!
> 
> Although no version info appears in "man 3 iconv", the text is
> different, so something changed.
> 
> Them damn GNU libraries! :-D
> 
> At least it got me to write a slightly better conversion function, based
> on the "recode()" function in the Fluxbox code base.

Running iconv(1) with the "--version" option gives some information.

Could that clear up the mystery?

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-v