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Re: iconv_open behaviour on EILSEQ
- From: Jungshik Shin <jshin at mailaps dot org>
- To: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 17:18:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: iconv_open behaviour on EILSEQ
On Sun, 5 May 2002, Jungshik Shin wrote:
> 2001. For instance, if '?' is used as a replacement character, there's
> no way for a callee to tell whether '?' in the output is the replacement
> character for unconvertible characters or genuinely present in the input.
ooops... s/callee/caller/
> another errno is not desirable). With that, it'd be clear to a callee
> whether it is an invalid byte sequence or a valid but unconvertible byte
ditto...