Bug#588990: libc-bin: iconv -l doesn't indicate aliases
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:18:33PM -0600, Neil Mayhew wrote:
> Package: libc-bin
> Version: 2.11.2-2
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
>
> Previously, before the switch from glibc to eglibc, iconv -l would show all
> the aliases for an encoding on the same line as the encoding. Now every
> encoding, whether primary or an alias, is on a separate line.
You have to be more specific about the problem, I don't see any change
between glibc based version and eglibc based version beside a few more
supported encoding.
> POSIX doesn't specify the format of the output of iconv -l, but the previous
> behavior was helpful, and I understand that eglibc is trying to be closely
> compatible with glibc.
>
glibc and eglibc don't differ on the iconv code.
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