Bug#177646: libc6: iconv ignores '-c' option

["Alexandra N. Kossovsky" <sasha@sanechka.spb.ru>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-9
Severity: normal


Well, '-c' option of  iconv(1) is not ignored completely, but it works
only once:

bash$ iconv -f cp1251 -t koi8-r <somefile >/dev/null
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 11084
bash$ iconv -c -f cp1251 -t koi8-r <somefile >/dev/null
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 16320
bash$

It is easy to see that only the first invalid character is omitted. 
I think, it should not be so (and it was not so with older libc). 
If this behaviour is desirable for you, there should be another option 
to omit all invalid characters.

Thank you,
    Alexandra.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux serv 2.4.20 #1 Thu Jan 2 18:33:22 MSK 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl

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