[Bug libc/4084] New: iconv_open fails with special character set "char"

[Bug libc/4084] New: iconv_open fails with special character set "char"

[aurelien at aurel32 dot net]

Hi,

according to
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html
iconv_open should accept "char" as a character set. To be more speicific from 
that site:
Locale dependent, in terms of char or wchar_t (with machine dependent 
endianness and alignment, and with semantics depending on the OS and the 
current LC_CTYPE locale facet)
  char, wchar_t

wchar_t works correctly, but not char. The patch below fixes the problem.


--- iconv/gconv_builtin.h.orig  2007-02-21 00:30:03.000000000 +0100
+++ iconv/gconv_builtin.h       2007-02-21 00:29:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 BUILTIN_ALIAS ("CP367//", "ANSI_X3.4-1968//")
 BUILTIN_ALIAS ("CSASCII//", "ANSI_X3.4-1968//")
 BUILTIN_ALIAS ("OSF00010020//", "ANSI_X3.4-1968//")
+BUILTIN_ALIAS ("CHAR//", "ANSI_X3.4-1968//")

 BUILTIN_TRANSFORMATION ("ANSI_X3.4-1968//", "INTERNAL", 1, "=ascii->INTERNAL",
                        __gconv_transform_ascii_internal, __gconv_btwoc_ascii,

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           Summary: iconv_open fails with special character set "char"
           Product: glibc
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libc
        AssignedTo: drepper at redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: aurelien at aurel32 dot net
                CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


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[Bug libc/4084] iconv_open fails with special character set "char"

[drepper at redhat dot com]

------- Additional Comments From drepper at redhat dot com  2007-02-21 15:48 -------
What on earth does the libiconv description has to do with glibc's
implementation?  CHAR is a stupid idea I'm not going to tolerate.

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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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