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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: iconv "versions"
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:05:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:23:30 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
wrote in <ut00ti$1qbd1$1@dont-email.me>:

> 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?

BTW, Chris...you weren't reinventing the iconv(1) tool, were you? *<:-)

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