Tru64 Unix problem: --encondig=UTF-8

Mon Oct 1 06:54:00 GMT 2001

Antonio Ake writes:
> I am working with 20010924 snapshot, I tried to compile a file and I had
> this message error:
> >>>gcc -02 -c spec/benchmarks/_201_compress/Main.java
> spec/benchmarks/_201_compress/Main.java:0: unknown encoding: `ISO8859-1'
> This might mean that your locale's encoding is not supported
> by your system's iconv(3) implementation. If you aren't trying
> to use a particular encoding for your input file, try the
> `--encoding=UTF-8' option.
> My OS is Tru64 Unix v 5.0 Alpha

it looks like the necessary conversion library is not installed in
/usr/lib/nls/loc/ISO8859-1_UCS-2. You'll probably need to install (at
least) the IOSWWBASE500 subset (though I haven't tried this yet my only
V5.1 machine).
	Rainer
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