Bug#412312: iconv fails when converting Catalan "ela geminada" character

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

> No it does not, iconv is meant as a 1:1 converter. If you want more
> subtle and evolved conversions, please use recode.
> 
>   ŀ and Ŀ do not exist in latin1/9 so it's valid not to be able to
> convert them.
> 
>   Please do consider that echo $foo | iconv -f utf8 -t latin1 | iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 
> should be identity (if every character in $foo exists in utf8). With
> your request, it's no longer true, as converting e.g. ŀ back and forth
> would give you l· in utf-8 as well, which is incorrect.

Hi Pierre,

My real intention was gaining the ability to use ŀ and Ŀ in gettext
translations, with the certainty that gettext will manage to convert them for
people still using latin1.

I was under the impression that iconv relied on the same backend that gettext
does, and so that fixing iconv would automaticaly fix gettext.  But as you put
it, sounds like that's not the case.

Do you know what is needed to archieve what we want?

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