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Bug#315882: marked as done (iconv: report character number as well as byte number)

Your message dated Wed, 7 Feb 2007 00:25:27 +0100
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and subject line iconv: report character number as well as byte number
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Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/bin/iconv
Tags: upstream

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

> Eli> Can you tell why you need that?

> iconv said there was a problem at the 2345th character in that file
> and I wanted to see what the file looked like around there.

I hope you filed a bug report with the iconv maintainers, asking them
to report the character number as well as the byte number.  I don't
see why Emacs should fix the entire world out there.

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On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:03:38PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22
> Severity: wishlist
> File: /usr/bin/iconv
> Tags: upstream
> 
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: want to go to the 2345th byte, not character
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > Eli> Can you tell why you need that?
> 
> > iconv said there was a problem at the 2345th character in that file
> > and I wanted to see what the file looked like around there.
> 
> I hope you filed a bug report with the iconv maintainers, asking them
> to report the character number as well as the byte number.  I don't
> see why Emacs should fix the entire world out there.


  Iconv is not meant to do that, iconv follows POSIX and won't change.
To understand which _character_ is wrong, one has to use mbs* functions
to compute the number of characters in it. It's C99, and is in the libc.

Cheers,
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·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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