iconv on Solaris

Mon Sep 24 04:32:00 GMT 2001

On 2001年9月24日, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Is it a known problem that things like BufferedReader do not
> work on Solaris 2.8?
>> The problem is that libjava uses iconv on Solaris, converting from
> 646 to UCS-2. Unfortunately, the Solaris iconv for this case seems
> to be broken. Here is an (ugly) test program:

iconv on Solaris has never really worked. On Solaris 7 we must convert
to/from UTF-8 because converters don't exist for arbitrary pairings.
Apparently Solaris 8 iconv supplies the missing converters but breaks
somewhere else.
Jeff