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

[Bruno Haible]

alphons@heijden.com wrote:
> As a comparison i demonstrated exact same system having same glibc, using 
> gettext-0.21.1 and that works fine, no errors when 'make install' a new 
> glibc, or gcc.
> ...
> There must be something changed after release gettext-0.21.1
> Why does msgfmt from gettext-0.21.1' on the same glibc have no problem 
> converting ASCII to UTF-8 and gettext-0.22.x errors out ?

There is a change in the way msgfmt works, in 0.22. It is mentioned in the NEWS
file. It requires a working iconv() now.

> The used glibc-2.38 (of the host system) is compiled default, and supports 
> iconv

Take a look at the mentions of 'iconv' in the file gettext-tools/config.status,
around
   checking for iconv.h
and
   checking for iconv
and
   checking for working iconv

This will help you understand why, in your installation, glibc's iconv() does
not work.

Bruno