X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ficonv_open.texi;h=8e44b1a5c19e7c0860c8af29a76da71cf1556542;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;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..8e44b1a5c 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 10.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open-utf}:
@@ -38,5 +38,11 @@ This function is missing on some platforms:
 MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, 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 10.  ---  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