X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ficonv_open.texi;h=8e44b1a5c19e7c0860c8af29a76da71cf1556542;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;hp=fb95bc19f56b700cfd0fa7b98d4a829178c3fab8;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi b/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi index fb95bc19f..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}: @@ -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, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS, +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