[bug-gnu-libiconv] iconv issue

[Nellis, Kenneth]

Dear bug-gnu-libiconv:

According to "iconv --help", "Report bugs to <address@hidden>."

Accordingly, it seems strange, perhaps a bug?, that the former of the 
following two lines doesn't work, but the latter does:

$ cat f | iconv -f UTF-8 -t Latin1 > x
iconv: (stdin):1:0: cannot convert
$ cat f | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 | iconv -f UTF-16 -t Latin1 > x
$

Some additional data:

$ iconv --version
iconv (GNU libiconv 1.14)
Copyright (C) 2000-2011 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.
$ file f
f: exported SGML document, UTF-8 Unicode (with BOM) text, with CRLF line 
terminators
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 COR900GFY5 2.5.1(0.297/5/3) 2016-04-21 22:14 x86_64 Cygwin
$

Sincerely,
Ken Nellis