Re: iconv: document not-fixed bugs, using POSIX terminology

2021-01-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Noah Misch wrote: > If https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html used > "identical" to mean "same byte sequence", it would be requiring an ISO-8859-1 > => > UTF-8 conversion to increment the iconv() return value upon converting 0xA1 to > 0xC2 0xA1. Most implementations

Re: iconv: document not-fixed bugs, using POSIX terminology

2021-01-03 Thread Noah Misch
On Sun, Jan 03, 2021 at 08:48:20PM +0100, Bruno Haible wrote: > > iconv.m4 clears HAVE_ICONV if it detects iconv() bugs. Docs list those bugs > > under "Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:". If changing HAVE_ICONV were > > enough to qualify as a fix, then "This function is missing on some > >

Re: iconv: document not-fixed bugs, using POSIX terminology

2021-01-03 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Noah, Thanks for the patch and explanations from . > iconv.m4 clears HAVE_ICONV if it detects iconv() bugs. Docs list those bugs > under "Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:". If changing HAVE_ICONV were > enough to quali

iconv: document not-fixed bugs, using POSIX terminology

2020-12-19 Thread Noah Misch
iconv.m4 clears HAVE_ICONV if it detects iconv() bugs. Docs list those bugs under "Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:". If changing HAVE_ICONV were enough to qualify as a fix, then "This function is missing on some platforms" would also belong under that heading. I'm proposing to move those b