This started when I found out that FontForge (FF) does not want to run with Gentoo's iconv: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124998
The FF developer told me: "According to the "$ iconv --list" you sent (http://plouj.sh.nu/iconvlist) both UCS2 and ISO-8859-1 are supported by your iconv. Yet attempting to convert one to the other fails. FF requires this conversion to work before it will start." Although FF seems to work now if compiled --without-iconv, I would like to know why this conversion is not working on my system. Here is what happens if I type: $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS2 </dev/null iconv: conversion from `ISO-8859-1' is not supported $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS-2 </dev/null iconv: conversion from `ISO-8859-1' is not supported $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code UCS-2-INTERNAL </dev/null iconv: conversion from `ISO-8859-1' and to `UCS-2-INTERNAL' are not supported $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code "ISO-10646/UCS2" </dev/null iconv: conversion from `ISO-8859-1' is not supported $ iconv --from-code ISO-8859-1 --to-code "UNICODE" </dev/null iconv: conversion from `ISO-8859-1' and to `UNICODE' are not supported Is there a way to make this conversion work? What is required? Is this somehow related to the locales which I have installed? How can I find out what kind of conversions would work on my system? Is this a known bug? My locales as configured from the time Gentoo was installed: $ cat /etc/locales.build en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 If there is a more appropriate gentoo mailing list for this, please direct me there. Thank you for your in advance. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
