Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] conversion of mathematical angled brackets from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

[Mike Fulton]

On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 1:53 PM Mike Fulton <mikefultonpersonal@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 4:06 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

Mike Fulton wrote:
> If I run:
>
> ```
> echo "⟨http://www.gnu.org⟩" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT
> ```
>
> with iconv, I am seeing:
>
> iconv: (stdin):1:0: cannot convert
>
> The angled brackets don't seem to get mapped to < and > which I was hoping
> they would.

Thanks for the report. Now implemented through
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libiconv.git;a=commit;h=02abfbed3329f245e7079bcef766cb5836057c6f

Thank you! I was hopeful that I would be able to apply this translit.def update to 1.17 but it doesn't seem to

have worked (builds fine but iconv still fails). I _did_ retain the tabs, which I missed the first time I did the patch.
Do you have a timeframe when you would expect to create a 1.18 tarball for download? 

If it isn't soon, I will work to get a build working with the 'git' build. I need to do that eventually anyway.

As it turned out, it wasn't _that_ hard to do a 'git' build on z/OS and I was able to validate your changes

work, and that 'man groff' (my original problem) no longer fails when processing the .UR and .UE tags 

> What's the best way to request a new 'approximation' (or do I have a
> different issue)?

Writing to the mailing list was OK. Entering a bug report at
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libiconv/ would also have been OK.

Bruno