iconv_open behaviour on EILSEQ

Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com
Sun May 5 00:59:00 GMT 2002


> Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 00:53:04 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jungshik Shin <jshin@mailaps.org>
> 
> What is it supposed to do when it encounters a *valid*
> byte sequence in the specified source codeset which cannot be converted
> to the specified target codeset.

POSIX 1003.1-2001 says it "shall perform an implementation-defined
conversion on this character."



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