Re: iconv module should detect buggy glibc iconv

[Reuben Thomas]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 at 00:58, Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29913
>
> This is a bug I just came across (in my capacity as maintainer of Recode)
> in current glibc.
>
> glibc iconv(3) can return EILSEQ when the input is merely untranslatable,
> rather than invalid. This is directly contrary to the POSIX spec

No, this is not contrary to POSIX. I explain it in the ticket you cited.

Thanks, I've followed up on that ticket.

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