[bug-gnu-libiconv] Possible bug in iconv 1.13?

[Edward Burns]

Hello,

I'm using iconv from Emacs VM mode.  Here is a message I just posted to
gnu.emacs.vm.info that I think may indicate a bug in iconv.

I appreciate any help you can lend.

Thanks,

Ed

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Hello VM users,

I don't know how many of us there are left, but I've stubbornly been
using VM for at least nineteen years and I'm still mostly satisfied.
One problem I can no longer passively tolerate is this "iconv:
(stdin):21:31: cannot convert".

Certain mails are unable to render completely due to some special
characters.  In these cases, the INBOX Presentation buffer abruptly
terminates with that iconv message.

Can anyone please help?  I can share a complete anonymized email if
necessary, just let me send it to you in email.  In the absence of that,
here is my stack:

Os: SunOS foo 5.10 Generic_144489-05 i86pc i386 i86pc
Emacs: 21.4 (patch 22) \"Instant Classic\" XEmacs Lucid
vm: 8.0.12-devo-585
iconv:  iconv --version
iconv (GNU libiconv 1.13)
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Bruno Haible.

Somewhere along the line I picked up this:

;Message-ID: address@hidden

(setq vm-mime-charset-converter-alist
      '(
        ("utf-8" "iso-8859-1" "iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1")
        ("windows-1252" "iso-8859-1" "iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1")
        )
 )

in a previous attempt to fix this difficult problem.

I was going to paste an excerpt of the mail, but it can't even paste the
special characters but they show up as similar to

(LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX)\200\223

replacing the all caps in parenthesis with the actual character, unicode
U+00E2.

Any help on this would be much appreciated.

Sincerely,
Ed Burns

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P.S. Because this is an email, I feel safer attaching the anonymized message
here for your complete purusal.

Thanks,

Ed

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