Hello

I have some problems with the program iconv because it cannot convert between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8. For example, when I install a program with APT (Debian):
A lot of programs have the same problem, for example when I copy a text in ISO to a Scite text editor:
I've tried reconfiguring the locales and reinstalling glibc, but without results.



Thanks

Can anybody help me?

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on debian lenny I had something similar:

manconv: iconv_open ("UTF-8//IGNORE", "euc"): Invalid argument

Debugging:
sudo -u man mandb --no-purge --quiet --create --debug | less

sample:
wrong: iconv -f euc -t UTF-8//IGNORE < /usr/local/share/man/japanese.euc/man1/sweep.1
right: iconv -f EUC-JP -t UTF-8//IGNORE < /usr/local/share/man/japanese.euc/man1/sweep.1

So it turned out there were wrong file names.

I ran from /usr/local/share/man:

rm ja_JP.eu
rm japanese.euc
mv jp.euc jp.euc-jp
ln -sf jp.euc-jp japanese
ln -sf jp.euc-jp ja_JP.ujis
ln -sf jp.euc-jp ja_JP.eucJP
ln -sf jp.euc-jp ja_JP

HTH