Re: proper way to handle ICONV_TRANSLIT on NetBSD (and other platforms)

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 05:17:52 +0900, Blair Sadewitz 
<blair.sadewitz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was updating devel/tig to version 1.0, and after obligatorily
> banging my head against my desk and feeling clueless, I think I
> figured out at least one issue:
>
> https://github.com/jonas/tig/commit/0b00b4de2bbb672d154dccef4a2b82e5d62fb93e
>
>  Add "//TRANSLIT" for iconv encoding
>
> [ jf: changed to use stack allocated buffer ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Fonseca <fonseca%diku.dk@localhost>
>
>
> Now, there could be other problems, but it ultimately dies with
> "failed to initialize character set conversion".
>
> What is the proper way to fix this?  I'd rather know more instead of
> simply copying what other people have done.

I feel it will never fallback to TRANSLIT-less iconv_open :(
because string_format should usually succeed.
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