Re: Bug in libiconv?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Jan 26 13:15, simrw@sim-basis.de wrote:
> > Here's what happens on Cygwin:
> >
> > $ gcc -g -o ic ic.c -liconv
> > $ ./ic
> > iconv: 138 <Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character>
> > in = <Liian pitkä sana>, inbuf = <ä sana>, inbytesleft = 7,
> outbytesleft = 492
> >   iconv: 138 <Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character>
> >   in = <Liian pitkä sana>, inbuf = <ä sana>, inbytesleft = 7,
> outbytesleft = 492
> >   iconv: 138 <Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character>
> >   in = <Liian pitkä sana>, inbuf = <ä sana>, inbytesleft = 7,
> outbytesleft = 492
> >   in = <Liian pitkä sana>, inbuf = <>, inbytesleft = 0, outbytesleft = 480
> >
> > So, AFAICS, there are two problems:
> >
> >   - Even though iconv_open has been opened explicitely with "UTF-8" as
> >     input string, the conversion still depends on the current application
> >     codeset.  That dsoesn't make sense.
> >
> >   - Even though the last parameter to iconv is defined in bytes, the
> >     value of outbytesleft after the conversion is the number of remaining
> >     wchar"t's, not the number of remaining bytes.  That's contrary to
> > what POSIX defines, see
> > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html
> 
> IMHO, the count is correct.
> On Windows/Cygwin, wchar_t is 2 bytes, on Linux, 4 bytes.
> So the buffer is 512 bytes.
> In the first 3 cases, 10 input bytes were consumed so that there remains
> in the buffer (512 - 20) = 492 bytes.
> In the last case all 16 bytes are consumed so there remains in
> the buffer (512 - 32) = 480 bytes.

Yes, you're right.  Quite obviously I misinterpreted the results without
realizing that the buffer is smaller under Cygwin.


Thanks,
Corinna

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