i18n: Handle EINVAL more gracefully.

[pspp] / src / libpspp / i18n.c

diff --git a/src/libpspp/i18n.c b/src/libpspp/i18n.c
index d9b42cbcca844da31d46630c78295b8276591d99..60dc693db6585a967ddae3cc82c37f26455587eb 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libpspp/i18n.c
+++ b/src/libpspp/i18n.c
@@ -118,11 +118,16 @@ try_recode (iconv_t conv,
                 &op, &outbytes) == -1)
     switch (errno)
       {
-      case EILSEQ:
       case EINVAL:
-        if (outbytes == 0)
+        if (outbytes < 2)
           return false;
+        *op++ = fallbackchar;
+        *op++ = '\0';
+        return true;
 
+      case EILSEQ:
+        if (outbytes == 0)
+          return false;
         *op++ = fallbackchar;
         outbytes--;
         ip++;