Tolerate the inability to convert character encodings

diff --git a/src/libpspp/i18n.c b/src/libpspp/i18n.c
index f10a52a50e271a4081bfff8252429d4b3edc856f..2be02f26cd58e34b883ff170d50220a88c989743 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libpspp/i18n.c
+++ b/src/libpspp/i18n.c
@@ -128,6 +128,9 @@ recode_string (const char *to, const char *from,
 
   conv = create_iconv (to, from);
 
+  if ( (iconv_t) -1 == conv )
+       return xstrdup (text);
+
   do {
     const char *ip = text;
     result = iconv (conv, (ICONV_CONST char **) &text, &inbytes,
@@ -161,6 +164,7 @@ recode_string (const char *to, const char *from,
            break;
          default:
            /* should never happen */
+            fprintf (stderr, "Character conversion error: %s\n", strerror (the_error));
            NOT_REACHED ();
            break;
          }