Re: msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ASCII" to "UTF-8" on gettext-22.x (gettext-21.1 no problem)

[alphons]

>thanks for the help, i will figure this out (eventually) ;-)

Okay, shortcut:

/sources/gettext-0.22.2/gettext-runtime/m4/iconv.m4 
--
/* Test against HP-UX 11.11 bug: No converter from EUC-JP to UTF-8 is
     provided.  */
  {
    /* Try standardized names.  */
    iconv_t cd1 = iconv_open ("UTF-8", "EUC-JP");
    /* Try IRIX, OSF/1 names.  */
    iconv_t cd2 = iconv_open ("UTF-8", "eucJP");
    /* Try AIX names.  */
    iconv_t cd3 = iconv_open ("UTF-8", "IBM-eucJP");
    /* Try HP-UX names.  */
    iconv_t cd4 = iconv_open ("utf8", "eucJP");
    if (cd1 == (iconv_t)(-1) && cd2 == (iconv_t)(-1)
        && cd3 == (iconv_t)(-1) && cd4 == (iconv_t)(-1))
      result |= 16;
    if (cd1 != (iconv_t)(-1))
      iconv_close (cd1);
    if (cd2 != (iconv_t)(-1))
      iconv_close (cd2);
    if (cd3 != (iconv_t)(-1))
      iconv_close (cd3);
    if (cd4 != (iconv_t)(-1))
      iconv_close (cd4);
  }
--

On my build system (and many others I guess), this makes no sense.
Japan is a great country, but when not installed the Japanese converters, this 
test result in 16.
And configure concludes there is no working iconv(), which is in fact, 
incorrect.


-Alphons.