[bug-gnu-libiconv] Cygwin iconv (GNU libiconv 1.13) - possible bug

[Foucault, Heather]

I am trying to convert a file on my windows XP machine running cygwin.  I need the file to be UTF-16LE. However, iconv does not write the byte order marks when specifying the endian-ness.

 

$ echo "abc" | iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-16 |  od -c

0000000 376 377  \0   a  \0   b  \0   c  \0  \n

0000012

 

$ echo "abc" | iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-16LE |  od -c

0000000   a  \0   b  \0   c  \0  \n  \0

0000010

 

$ echo "abc" | iconv -f ASCII -t UTF-16BE |  od -c

0000000  \0   a  \0   b  \0   c  \0  \n

0000010

 

Am I missing something ? why does the standard UTF-16 give the BOM “376 377” , but the other two do not ?

 

Do I have to explicitly add it ?

 

Heather Foucault