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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Missing UTF-8-Mac is causing programs to fail
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] Missing UTF-8-Mac is causing programs to fail |
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Tue, 05 May 2020 00:36:02 +0200 |
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Hi,
Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> I'm building libiconv 1.16 from sources on OS X 10.5, 10.9 and 10.12.
> It looks like lack of UTF-8-Mac support in libiconv is causing other
> programs to fail.
That's quite possible. The Apple-modified libiconv supports a
"UTF-8-Mac" encoding, as a workaround to a deficiency of their HFS+
file system. The original GNU libiconv does not support this encoding.
Bruno