Re: iconv bug in 2.2.3

[Dana Lacoste]

I see in the digest that it stripped the 8 bit characters.
oh well.  I've updated the methodology to show what I did.
Note that the 'bad' characters showed up in both Linux and
Win2k (VMWare under Linux :) so the bug is real, it's just
not readily apparent below :)

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Methodology :
1 - Create a test file :
   cd /tmp
   vi test1
   ^v169 - copyright symbol
   ^v174 - registered trademark

2 - run the iconv program to convert the symbols :
   iconv -f ibm850 -t unicodelittle < test1 > output1

3 - look at the results
   cat output1
   (insert registered trademark symbol here) - copyright symbol
   (insert two left angle brackets symbol here) - registered trademark

3a- Insert Shocked Response
   WHAT?

4 - try again with a different/compatible code page to see 
    what happens:
   iconv -f cp1250 -t unicodelittle < test1 > output2
   (IF I remember correctly [and web searches seem to back me up]
    CP1250 and IBM850 are the same)

5 - look at the results (they're correct this time)
   cat output2
   - copyright symbol
   - registered trademark

6 - Draw conclusions
    It looks like there's something wrong with IBM850.