UTF8 encoding on Solaris 8

[Andreas Hoeschler]

Hi all,

I just realized that GNUstep (at least my installation) on Solaris 8 cannot handle UTF8. 

   	[[NSString alloc] initWithData:unicodeData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

The above works on MacOSX but returns nil on GNUstep. I searched the archives and found that iconv needs to be available.

bash-2.03# iconv -V
iconv: illegal option -- V
Usage: iconv -f fromcode -t tocode [file...]
bash-2.03# 

It obviously is though it seems it is a different version from the one mentioned in the build guide. I also read someting about setting the internal encoding to UCS-2 to make this work on Solaris. However, it did not find out how to do it. What are my optins now? Has anybody got this working on Solaris 8 and can provide me with suggestions?

Thanks a lot,

Andreas