Re: iconv "versions"

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:48:08 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
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So I'm writing code that calls iconv(3), and it's reading a file encoded
in an ISO-8859-1 character set ...

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Are you sure it was ISO-8859-1, and not, say, Windows-1252?
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... and it keeps complaining about "invalid multibyte sequence".

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What exactly was the sequence in question?

Here's an example. The @ indicates the array index of the offending sequence:

    error: po::iconvert: invalid multibyte sequence in: "-Übersetzung" @1

Like I said, the error appears on the Ubuntu laptop, but not on the Arch.
Here are the two versions of iconv, as shown by "iconv --version":

    $ iconv (Ubuntu GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9.14) 2.31 (copyright 2020)
    $ iconv (GNU libc) 2.39 (Arch, copyright 2024)

I think the conclusion is logical :-)

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