Re: msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ASCII" to "UTF-8" on gettext-22.0 (gettext-21.1 no problem)

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

alphons@heijden.com wrote:
> msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ASCII" to "UTF-8" on gettext-22.0 (gettext-21.1 
> no problem) 

You probably mean version 0.22, not 22.0 ?

Btw, the current version is 0.22.2.

> Condensed compiling instructions gettext-21.1 and gettext-22.0 
> (linuxfromscratch) 
>  ====================================================== 
>  ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-shared 
>  make 
>  cp -v gettext-tools/src/{msgfmt,msgmerge,xgettext} /usr/bin

All GNU packages support "make install". If you copy selected
binaries:
  - some functionality of these programs will be missing,
  - other important programs, such as msgunfmt and msgcat, will be missing.
  - info-format documentation will be missing.
  - man pages will be missing.
Additionally, if you use 'cp' (instead of 'install') to copy binaries:
  - processes that are currently executing these binaries will crash.

>  msgfmt -o /sources/glibc-2.38/build/po/en_GB.mo en_GB.po 
>  msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ASCII" to "UTF-8". msgfmt relies on iconv(). 
> This version was built without iconv(). 

The error message is clear: The libc does not support iconv().

If installed properly, glibc supports iconv(), of course.

Thus, it must be a glibc installation problem on your side.

Bruno