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[Bug manual/10460] "iconv" corrupts all files over 17 KB from UTF8 to UTF16
- From: "fweimer at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 07:29:53 +0000
- Subject: [Bug manual/10460] "iconv" corrupts all files over 17 KB from UTF8 to UTF16
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- References: <bug-10460-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10460
Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> changed:
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--- Comment #9 from Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to Rich Felker from comment #8)
> There's another open bug, #6050, which is to be fixed by removing the
> useless and harmful attempt to read the whole input file into memory, so I
> don't think adding more cases to do this would be a good idea. Using the
> same file for input and output is just ALWAYS wrong for all the standard
> utilities; iconv is no exception.
There are exceptions, sort being one of them.
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