Bug#447433: iconv TRANSLIT behavior is locale-dependent?

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2

The following command is taken from a test case from the php5 source
package:

echo -e "\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d\x87\x6d" \
| iconv -f CP932 -t EUC-JP//TRANSLIT

The output of this command is different depending on the locale of the
calling user.  If I call this command in a UTF-8 locale, I get the behavior
expected by the php test case.  If I call it in a C locale, I get a
different output (a series of question marks).  If I call it in an ISO8859-1
locale, I get yet a different output.

I don't see any reason that the behavior of iconv should be dependent on the
locale in which it's invoked.

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