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AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software - Can libiconv convert IBM-1047 to UTF?

  • 1.  AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software - Can libiconv convert IBM-1047 to UTF?

    Posted Tue May 31, 2022 09:58 AM
    I have an application that requires to call libiconv.so.2 library (version from 1.15 or above) for character set conversion. Searched in AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software, I downloaded and installed libiconv-1.16 and try to run the application but failed.

    I try to call it by command line directly:
    root@axi71(/)# which iconv
    /opt/freeware/bin/iconv
    root@axi71(/)# iconv -f IBM-1047 -t UTF-8 ebcdic.txt > ebcdic.converted
    iconv: conversion from IBM-1047 unsupported
    iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings
    root@axi71(/)# iconv -l | grep IBM-1047
    root@axi71(/)#

    From the result, it seems that IBM-1047 encoding is not available in libiconv-1.16. I have further searched gnu.org, libiconv-1.17 is now available with the encoding IBM-1047.

    https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10175


    Does anyone encounter same problem ?
    May I know if any configuration can set to allow libiconv-1.16 to convert IBM-1047 ? or it really cannot do the conversion of IBM-1047?
    Will libiconv-1.17 be available in AIX Toolbox for Open Source Software ?




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    Angus Lam
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