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Bug 1592270 - glibc: Problem with iconv converting ISO8859-1 to IBM273 [fedora]
Summary: glibc: Problem with iconv converting ISO8859-1 to IBM273 [fedora]
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: 28
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian Weimer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 1591268
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Reported: 2018-06-18 09:54 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2018-06-23 20:47 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: glibc-2.27.9000-24.fc29 glibc-2.27-19.fc28
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Clone Of: 1591268
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Last Closed: 2018-06-23 20:47:59 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Florian Weimer 2018-06-18 09:54:17 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1591268 +++

Converting files or characters using iconv (or the iconv library) result in
an "illegal input sequence" error when encountering an "overscore" character
(IS08859-1: Hex "AF"). This happens tough there is a corresponding character
is available in IBM273 (Hex: "BC"). Converting to IBM1141, which is  the same
table as IBM273 except for the EURO-Sign works.

You can reproduce this behavior with the following command:

echo "AF" | xxd -r -p | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t ibm273

In contrast:
echo "AF" | xxd -r -p | iconv -f iso8859-1 -t ibm1141
works.

Using ibm273//TRANSLIT is not an option currently, as it would require a
lot of changes in the user code, and would just not throw an error, but
replace the "overscore" with an "o".

This problem happens in rhel7 and fedora 28.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2018-06-20 16:59:26 UTC 
glibc-2.27-19.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e51a452b8f
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2018-06-21 16:13:45 UTC 
glibc-2.27-19.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-e51a452b8f
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2018-06-23 20:47:59 UTC 
glibc-2.27-19.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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