Re: iconv "versions"

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 23:23:30 -0000 (UTC), vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
wrote in <ut00ti$1qbd1$1@dont-email.me>:

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:48:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom
<OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
wrote in <usvnq9$1r7ed$1@dont-email.me>:
 

So I'm writing code that calls iconv(3), and it's reading a file
encoded in an ISO-8859-1 character set and converting to UTF-8, and it
keeps complaining about "invalid multibyte sequence".
 
I'm pounding my head trying to debug the issue, goo-goo'ing for related
issues,
even trying a different implemenation.
 
I give up, commit the code to my home "server" on the "Ubuntu" laptop.
 
Later, I fire up the "Arch" laptop, pull the code, build it, run it,
and run the test script. No problem!
 
Although no version info appears in "man 3 iconv", the text is
different, so something changed.
 
Them damn GNU libraries! :-D
 
At least it got me to write a slightly better conversion function,
based on the "recode()" function in the Fluxbox code base.

 
Running iconv(1) with the "--version" option gives some information.
 
Could that clear up the mystery?

BTW, Chris...you weren't reinventing the iconv(1) tool, were you? *<:-)

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