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* [Bug locale/19418] iconv should stop reading from 'inbuf' when 'outbytesleft' is zero
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@ 2023-02-18 23:09 ` bruno at clisp dot org
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From: bruno at clisp dot org @ 2023-02-18 23:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Bruno Haible <bruno at clisp dot org> ---
(In reply to Andreas Schwab from comment #2)
> It is impossible in general to know how much space is needed in *outbuf
> before reading the next bytes from *inbuf.
Right. In particular some bytes from the input may be dropped from the output.
See:
$ printf 'x\U000E0004' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UCS-2BE | od -t x1
0000000 00 78
0000002
It produces the same output as
$ printf 'x' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UCS-2BE | od -t x1
0000000 00 78
0000002
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