Public bug reported:
Under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I used code in the form
unix2dos < in.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP1252 > out.txt
(as in "man unix2dos", then and also still now under 18.04 LTS)
to transform UTF8 database extract into an RTF file, for onward processing.
This now fails.
inconv now gives output as follows:
echo abc àêü | iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1252
abc ���
echo abc àêü | iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1252//translit
abc ���
echo abc àêü | iconv -f utf-8 -t latin1//translit
abc ���
But inconv WILL transform UTF8 to basic ASCII, if called with TRANLIT:
echo abc àêü | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii
abc iconv: illegal input sequence at position 4
echo abc àêü | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit
abc aeu
This is better than not working at all, but the transform to CP1252 used to
change accented UTF8 characters to single-byte accented characters
This is the appropriate behaviour, and should be restored..
(FWIW, recode now cannot transform to CP1252 either ...)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libc-bin 2.27-3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Wed Nov 14 10:53:57 2018
Dependencies:
gcc-8-base 8.2.0-1ubuntu2~18.04
libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1
libgcc1 1:8.2.0-1ubuntu2~18.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-03-09 (614 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
SourcePackage: glibc
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.ld.so.conf:
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf
/lib /lib/esql /usr/local/lib
mtime.conffile..etc.ld.so.conf: 2017-03-21T19:11:53.466413
** Affects: glibc (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic
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Title:
iconv no longer transforms UTF8 to CP1252 as it used to under Ubuntu
16.04 LTS.
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