From 78fa3ce67973e0d65143a37c28d1b1c1564749fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention indirect conversion problem. --- ChangeLog | 5 +++++ doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7ddaf51091..06de474c6c 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-08-30 Bruno Haible + + * doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi: Mention indirect conversion + problem. + 2009-08-30 Bruno Haible Work around iconv_open problem on Solaris. diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi b/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi index 74e8106258..8e44b1a5c1 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi @@ -38,5 +38,11 @@ This function is missing on some platforms: MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS, when GNU libiconv is not installed. @item +For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B, +although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This +occurs on some platforms: Solaris 10. --- Gnulib provides a higher-level +facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with +this problem. +@item The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent. @end itemize -- 2.30.2