Re: Trouble running guile cross-compiled using buildroot

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 10:10:34 +0200
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> Guile converts file names to the current locale encoding before passing
> them to the POSIX system calls.
> 
> What happens here is that the current locale encoding that is detected
> is ANSI_X3.4-1968 (aka. ASCII), but converting the string (which is most
> likely ASCII) to that encoding fails.
> 
> This is a bit ridiculous, but except for UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1 which
> Guile handles internally, it resorts to iconv(3).  Apparently iconv(3)
> doesn’t know this encoding name

It should, though.  On my system, "iconv -l | fgrep ASCII" produces
this output:

  ANSI_X3.4-1968 ANSI_X3.4-1986 ASCII CP367 IBM367 ISO-IR-6 ISO646-US 
ISO_646.IRV:1991 US US-ASCII CSASCII