My guess is that this has to do with how iconv is used and that it probably isn't noticed because new line is the same in commonly used character sets and this feature probably isn't used much.
I was playing around with sending out email in ebcdic-us and found that
when using the convert when sending option (offered after editing the
charset with control-t) an utf-8 new line gets added to the converted
part.
- character set conversion issue Bruno Wolff III
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