Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx iconv for Solaris

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> > @@ -952,6 +952,20 @@ int UCTransUniCharStr(char *outbuf,
> >             HTSprintf0(&tocode, "%s//TRANSLIT", 
> > LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].MIMEname);
> >             cd = iconv_open(tocode, "UTF-16BE");
> >             FREE(tocode)
> > +           if (cd == (iconv_t)-1) {
> > +               HTSprintf0(&tocode, "%s", LYCharSet_UC[charset_out].MIMEname);
>
> I'm puzzled here - since TRANSLIT is less stringent, I would expect
> that the check would be first made on the exact translation rather
> than on the transliteration.   Any comments?

looking a little further, I see that the issue is that TRANSLIT is
a glibc extension, so it's tried first in case it works.  (google didn't
show much comment about whether it's more/less likely to succeed than the
plain POSIX version).

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