Re: iconv pronblems

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 14 Oct 2011, at 14:05, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> since I updated base today, I get tons of these errors continuously in my 
> console...
> 
> This is on NetBSD 5.99.56 current, x86
> 
> 
> 2011-10-14 15:03:24.447 fswatcher[7707] No iconv for encoding 
> NSISOLatin1StringEncoding tried to use ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT
> 2011-10-14 15:03:24.557 fswatcher[3507] No iconv for encoding 
> NSISOLatin1StringEncoding tried to use ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT
> 
> 
> Ideas?

I think it means your iconv doesn't support lossy conversion from unicode to 
latin1.
The code in gnustep-base is *supposed* to check whether such conversion is 
supported, and use a fallback mechanism for the common charactersets if it 
isn't.
But I think the test is wrong ... it was checking that conversion from latin1 
to unicode was supported rather than that conversion from unicode to latin1 was 
supported.
I've swapped the order of the arguments of the test in Unicode.m ... hopefully 
that will fix the problem.