Bug#398270: iconv -f emacs-mule

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

tag 398270 + wontfix
thanks

Richard Stallman a écrit :
>     It would be very helpful if one could do
>     $ iconv -f emacs-mule -t utf8 file
>     as one way or another, an emacs buffer sometimes gets saved in mule
>     encoding -- one cannot guarantee it will never happen, and the person
>     later who discovers the file has been saved that way might not have,
>     be able to use, or understand the documents of emacs.
> 
> This seems to be a suggestion for iconv, so please send it to the
> iconv developers.  (I don't know who they are.)
> 

This bug has been forwarded upstream as bug 3901 [1]. It has been tagged
as WONTFIX with the following answer:

"iconv is not a catch-all for encodings.  This is what recode is for and
recode already has mule support."

I am therefore tagging this bug as wontfix for Debian. Patches are
welcomed though.

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3901


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