Bug#137185: general: Some IANA registered charset names are not recognized

[Victor Wagner <vitus@ice.ru>]

Package: general
Version: N/A; reported 2002-03-07
Severity: normal

All the Debian packages which use iconv for charset conversion,
by default do not understand encoding names such as windows-1251,
which are perfectly legal IANA-registered encoding names.

Instead they understand names like cp1251 which are glibc-specific
and unportable.

Some packages affected by this problem:

vim
xsltproc
libxml-libxml-perl

and there are many others.

This problem also cases a confusion among maintainers, for instance
in the distributive /etc/Muttrc is writen

#aliases for broken MUAs

above mutt-specific fix for this problem. But MUA which use
IANA-approved charset names shouln't be considered broken.


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux banquet 2.4.17-686-smp #2 SMP Sat Dec 22 22:00:42 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R