X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ficonv_open.texi;h=38dfb3932ce47e3008757aecc5ea9091f40b6dbd;hb=f40e1532834adc754cac576a07d43b9556f89a97;hp=eb8f5d594e03b195548991550153be18bb78fb2d;hpb=244b71aedb0c8e8fbcb1e04696c36217bce3c974;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi b/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi index eb8f5d594..38dfb3932 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ @section @code{iconv_open} @findex iconv_open -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/iconv_open.html} +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html} Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open}: @item This function recognizes only non-standard aliases for many encodings (not the IANA registered encoding names) on many platforms: -AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1. +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11. @end itemize Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open-utf}: @@ -35,8 +35,14 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS, +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS, when GNU libiconv is not installed. @item +For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B, +although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This +occurs on some platforms: Solaris 11 2010-11. --- Gnulib provides a higher-level +facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with +this problem. +@item The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent. @end itemize