Bug #3448: broken iconv library

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: all

[marcandre (Marc-Andre Lafortune)]

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Texts longer than ~8160 characters can create problems with iconv on some distributions:

require 'iconv'
Iconv.conv("iso-8859-1//ignore", "utf-8", "\305\253" + "a"*8159).size #=> 8159
Iconv.conv("iso-8859-1//ignore", "utf-8", "\305\253" + "a"*8160).size # => Iconv::IllegalSequence: "a"

The code above is from Debian 4 and 5 (on Heroku...), but it works as expected on OS X. As such, it affects Ruby 1.8 and 1.9

A google search reassured me I was not crazy, e.g. my_iconv_open in:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/vim/vim-6/vim/src/mbyte.c

I realize this is somewhat a third party issue, but I'm logging this nevertheless, as a brave soul might bypass the bug in the Ruby library and/or report this to the proper authorities.

Marc-André
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[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Category changed from lib to ext

=begin
It seems glibc iconv's bug; Mac OS X, FreeBSD and so on use GNU libiconv.
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[akr (Akira Tanaka)]

• Project changed from 8 to Ruby
• Category changed from ext to ext

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

//ignore is GNU libiconv's feature

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

iconv is a legacy library and will be removed from future releases, so its use is strongly discouraged.