Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-22 Severity: major Iconv fails to convert ISO-8859-1 apostrophe to UTF-8. It works OK if input encoding is specified as cp1251.
ISO-8859-1 is perhaps the most widespread single-byte encoding; iconv _must_ work with it. Therefore I set severity to `major'. To check: $ iconv --from iso-8859-1 --to utf-8 iso-8859-1-test $ iconv --from cp1251 --to utf-8 iso-8859-1-test Or: $ iconv --from iso-8859-1 --to utf-8 iso-8859-1-test | wc -c $ iconv --from cp1251 --to utf-8 iso-8859-1-test | wc -c (I get 81 and 82 correspondingly. Apostrophe in ISO-8859-1 is not touched and remains as invalid UTF-8 sequence. In cp1251 it is converted to a valid UTF-8 apostrophe, as expected.) Apostrophe is considered an illegal character in ISO-8859-1. The behavior can also be seen in gedit and Emacs. Other ISO-8859-# charsets show the same behavior. Kernel version: 2.6.8-3-k7 Test case is attached.
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