Description of problem: On RHEL 5 with glibc-common-2.5-18.el5_1.1, iconv doesn't properly transliterate a polich character "Ł", substituting it with a question mark: $ locale | fgrep CTYPE LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" $ echo 'Zażółć gęślą jaźń ZAŻÓŁĆ GĘŚLĄ JAŹŃ' | iconv -f 'UTF-8' -t 'US-ASCII//TRANSLIT' Zazo?c gesla jazn ZAZO?C GESLA JAZN On Fedora 8 with glibc-common-2.7-2, iconv does this correctly: $ locale | fgrep CTYPE LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" $ echo 'Zażółć gęślą jaźń ZAŻÓŁĆ GĘŚLĄ JAŹŃ' | iconv -f 'UTF-8' -t 'US-ASCII//TRANSLIT' Zazolc gesla jazn ZAZOLC GESLA JAZN Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-common-2.5-18.el5_1.1 (works incorrectly) glibc-common-2.7-2 (works correctly) Iconv should correctly transliterate all diacritical characters from a given language, not only some.
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0080.html