Bug#588990: libc-bin: iconv -l doesn't indicate aliases

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:53:56AM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> tag 58899 + moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:18:33PM -0600, Neil Mayhew wrote:
> > Package: libc-bin
> > Version: 2.11.2-2
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: upstream
> > 
> > 
> > Previously, before the switch from glibc to eglibc, iconv -l would show all
> > the aliases for an encoding on the same line as the encoding. Now every
> > encoding, whether primary or an alias, is on a separate line.
> 
> You have to be more specific about the problem, I don't see any change
> between glibc based version and eglibc based version beside a few more
> supported encoding.
>  
> > POSIX doesn't specify the format of the output of iconv -l, but the previous
> > behavior was helpful, and I understand that eglibc is trying to be closely
> > compatible with glibc.
> > 
> 
> glibc and eglibc don't differ on the iconv code.
> 

Any news about that?

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