X-Git-Url: https://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ficonv.texi;h=8f26da2659118d2fd9e0f0ba20b5cd75aa2a00aa;hb=72fa964ff7b6a1e8359c83e34765af885fc60ebe;hp=328842e8e868b4d0421768aaaffd64511c7b017e;hpb=4ef8b64903e0cdbac1e7430491cd1e78ff2fdbf8;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi b/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi index 328842e8e..8f26da265 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/iconv.texi @@ -22,16 +22,19 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS, +Mac OS 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 This function was not correctly implemented in glibc versions before 2.2. @item -When @code{iconv} encounters an input character that is valid but that can -not be converted to the output character set, glibc's and GNU libiconv's +When @code{iconv} encounters an input character that is valid but that +cannot be converted to the output character set, glibc's and GNU libiconv's @code{iconv} stop the conversion. Some other implementations put an -implementation-defined character into the output buffer. --- +implementation-defined character into the output buffer. Gnulib provides higher-level facilities @code{striconv} and @code{striconveh} (wrappers around @code{iconv}) that deal with conversion errors in a platform independent way. +@item +This function returns a positive return value, instead of zero, when +converting from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on HP-UX 11. @end itemize