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Description of problem: when using the cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale in LC_CTYPE category, iconv cannot encode non-ascii data to the "us-ascii//TRANSLIT" encoding. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-common-2.4-8 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 iconv -f utf-8 -t us-ascii//TRANSLIT <<EOF á EOF # the above was lowercase "a" with acute above character Actual results: The character "á" is transliterated as "?". Expected results: The character "á" should be transliterated as "a". Additional info: Pavel Kankovsky suggested that the following lines should be added to the locale definition, to the LC_CTYPE section: translit_start include "translit_combining";"" translit_end I don't know the transliteration rules for the English language, but the en_US and en_GB locales should probably be changed as well For example, the cy_GB locale contains the above section as well.
I've added transliteration support in all locales now. The next rawhide build will have the changes.
The current rawhide code has the fix. There is an unrelated problem with iconv emitting an unnecessary error message which can be ignored for now. It's fixed in cvs, too, and will be in rawhide soon.