2009-08-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+ * doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi: Mention indirect conversion
+ problem.
+
+2009-08-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
Work around iconv_open problem on Solaris.
* lib/iconv_open-solaris.gperf: New file.
* m4/iconv_open.m4 (gl_FUNC_ICONV_OPEN): Also handle Solaris.
MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS,
when GNU libiconv is not installed.
@item
+For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B,
+although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This
+occurs on some platforms: Solaris 10. --- Gnulib provides a higher-level
+facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with
+this problem.
+@item
The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent.
@end itemize