Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx iconv for Solaris

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

> looking a little further, I see that the issue is that TRANSLIT is
> a glibc extension, so it's tried first in case it works.  (google didn't
> show much comment about whether it's more/less likely to succeed than the
> plain POSIX version).

It fails on Citrus iconv. ISTR I already reported that here, which
led to the inclusion of the change that the non-TRANSLIT version is
tried if the TRANSLIT version fails.

bye,
//mirabilos
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