The encoding 646 once again

Fri Mar 15 19:13:00 GMT 2002

On 15 Mar 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Martin> So the only valid values on this system are these:
> Martin> KOI8-R, UCS-4, UTF-7 and UTF-8. Nothing else.
>> Wow, that's surprisingly lame.

On Solaris 2.7 I discovered that the system iconv can only convert to/from
UTF-8. Since gcj wants to convert the input locale (646) to UCS-2 it fails
on this target.
Solaris 2.8 doesn't have this problem. Once I upgraded I became
disinterested in fixing it.
> Longer term, consider installing Bruno Haible's libiconv.

Not a bad idea in any case.
Jeff