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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..836b2e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +@node iconv +@section @code{iconv} +@findex iconv + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html} + +Gnulib module: iconv + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}. +@item +Failures are not distinguishable from successful returns on some platforms: +AIX 5.1, Solaris 10. +@item +A buffer overrun can occur on some platforms: +AIX 6.1..7.1. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS, +when GNU libiconv is not installed. +@item +This function was not correctly implemented in glibc versions before 2.2. +@item +When @code{iconv} encounters an input character that is valid but that +cannot be converted to the output character set, glibc's and GNU libiconv's +@code{iconv} stop the conversion. Some other implementations put an +implementation-defined character into the output buffer. --- +Gnulib provides higher-level facilities @code{striconv} and @code{striconveh} +(wrappers around @code{iconv}) that deal with conversion errors in a platform +independent way. +@item +This function returns a positive return value, instead of zero, when +converting from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on HP-UX 11. +@end itemize |