tags 19233 + notabug
close 19233
thanks
John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 12:24:42AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
[...]
> I guess that both iconv and gdb are somewhat broken on your system.
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> You are right. I was linking to the wrong libiconv
Okay.
> I think however, that your suggested work-around or something similar
> could do with pushing to the master: There is a circular dependency
> here: If iconv_open fails, guile tries to report the error using
> scm_locale_string which itself calls iconv_open ...
In the common case, the failure is not that iconv is broken, but rather
that the string contains a character that cannot be encoded in the
specified encoding. 'scm_encoding_error' raises an exception, which
could be caught and handled by user code. If uncaught, it would print
an error message that contains only ASCII characters, so should not
fail.
What I suggested was not a workaround, but rather a temporary hack to
debug your problem.
Thanks,
Mark
