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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-08-30 16:24:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2009-08-30 16:24:02 +0200 |
| commit | 78fa3ce67973e0d65143a37c28d1b1c1564749fb (patch) | |
| tree | 03e8130fd31cf98d9b2f18d4353e81e408b3f463 /doc | |
| parent | 555629c070c880ec843eab0dcf05952efeefbeb9 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-78fa3ce67973e0d65143a37c28d1b1c1564749fb.tar.gz | |
Mention indirect conversion problem.
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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 |