Re: [bug-gnu-libiconv] conversion of mathematical angled brackets from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1

[Mike Fulton]

Hi

Just to clarify my point about 'the build'. I believe it is just the man page that was built awhile ago. If I issue:

  iconv --version

I get:

  iconv (GNU libiconv 1.17)
  Copyright (C) 2000-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
  This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
  There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
  Written by Bruno Haible.

Thanks, Mike

On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 9:23 PM Mike Fulton <mikefultonpersonal@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

If I run:

```

echo "⟨http://www.gnu.org⟩" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT

```

with iconv, I am seeing:

iconv: (stdin):1:0: cannot convert

The angled brackets don't seem to get mapped to < and > which I was hoping they would.

This shows up in practice for me when trying to do 'man groff' on my z/OS system and it is trying to convert the UTF-8 code to ISO-8859-1. 

What's the best way to request a new 'approximation' (or do I have a different issue)? 

I am seeing this with a build that appears to be from March 31st 2007 on z/OS and January 22, 2006 on a Mac. So perhaps I just need a newer drop? The z/OS version is built from: https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.17.tar.gz

Thanks, Mike Fulton