Bug#179115: libc6: iconv_open doesn't handle "char"
Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.1-10
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
In GNU iconv, "" as a character encoding is an alias for "char".
In fact on many systems it seems "char" is the local 8-bit encoding
while "" means nothing.
But glibc iconv works for "", but fails on "char". This is unfortunate.
I haven't tried out "wchar", but I believe it is supposed to be the
"local" 16-bit encoding.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-ck10 #1 Thu Oct 24 05:34:48 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1 (ignored: LC_ALL set)
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libdb1-compat 2.1.3-7 The Berkeley database routines [gl
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