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Bug#95444: libc6: iconv_open uses locale-dependent case-conversion



reassign 95444 manpages-dev
thanks

> Thomas Roessler just identified this problem on mutt-dev@mutt.org.
> 
> In an ISO-8859-9 locale, tolower('I') != 'i', so:
> 
> $ LANG=tr_TR /usr/bin/iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t ISO-8859-1 < /dev/null
> $ LANG=tr_TR /usr/bin/iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t iso-8859-1 < /dev/null
> /usr/bin/iconv: conversion from `iso-8859-1' to `iso-8859-1' not supported

This bug should be fixed in 2.3.2.ds1-12.

> Also, the man page for str(n)casecmp should mention that the behaviour
> of those functions is locale-dependent, as this is likely to be the
> cause of this and similar bugs affecting Turkish users.

This is manpages-dev issue, I reassign it.

Regards,
-- gotom



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