Bug#340911: catch iconv -t ... -t ...

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 02:22:51AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.5-7
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/bin/iconv
> 
> I noticed that
> iconv -f utf-8 -t gb2312 -t big5
> does not cause an error.

This is perfectly normal. All UNIX tools allow that and only take into
account the latest specified value. You can try to play with ls, cat,
head, etc..., they all have this normal behaviour.

> P.S., on the man page,
> SYNOPSIS
>        iconv -f encoding -t encoding inputfile
> should be
>        iconv -f encoding -t encoding [inputfile ...]
> or     iconv -f encoding -t encoding [inputfiles ...]
> 

This would be fixed in the next upload.

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