evolution + evolution-mapi + iconv and charset CP20866

[Vladimir Grebenschikov]

Hi 

> CP20866 is the Windows encoding for KOI8-R.  I'm not sure why libiconv
> does not support it.

Looks like it was supported in past, and then support was just dropped.

> Try setting CHARSETALIASDIR to be the full path to charset.alias, and
> see if that works.

It does not helps, it even did not tried to open charset.alias file (by strace output)
$ env CHARSETALIASDIR=/usr/local/libdata/charset.alias strace -o
iconv.strace iconv -f cp20866 -t utf-8
iconv: conversion from cp20866 unsupported
iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings
$ fgrep charset iconv.strace 
$

Looks like iconv broken in place of reading charset aliases from file.

PS. Can't read your message in evolution due to "Formatting message"
issue (known evolution issue, fixed in recent version). Does MC repo
have 2.29.3 evolution or later ?

-------- Исходное сообщение --------
От: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
Кому: vova at fbsd.ru
Копия: gnome <gnome at freebsd.org>
Тема: Re: evolution + evolution-mapi + iconv and charset CP20866
Дата: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:51:28 -0500

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 22:15 +0300, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> Anybody knows answer on following questions:
> - why libiconv has no support for CP20866 charset (alias for koi8-r)
> - or why /usr/local/libdata/charset.alias file is not processed by
> libiconv
> - or why evolution-mapi provides mail messages with that charset 
> 
> Problem reading mail with evolution + evolution-mapi some messages are
> not displayed correctly, on stderr error message about inability to
> convert CP20866.
> 
> Same error shown by iconv.
> 
> $ iconv -f CP20866 -t koi8-r /etc/hosts
> iconv: conversion from CP20866 unsupported
> iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings
> $

CP20866 is the Windows encoding for KOI8-R.  I'm not sure why libiconv
does not support it.

Try setting CHARSETALIASDIR to be the full path to charset.alias, and
see if that works.

Joe


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Vladimir B. Grebenschikov
vova at fbsd.ru