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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=373284


           Summary: man stops working after GNU libiconv is installed
           Product: openSUSE 10.3
           Version: Final
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: I18N, patch
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Basesystem
        AssignedTo: mfabian@xxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: bruno@xxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: qa@xxxxxxx
                CC: pinard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bruno@xxxxxxxxx
          Found By: ---


After a user installs GNU libiconv in his private directories, "man" stops
working. 2 users report independently:
"I am always getting an error message on man:

iconv: conversion from utf8 unsupported
iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings"

$ iconv -l | grep -i utf
UTF-8

The cause for the problem is in the 'groff' package: It contains a file
'utf8.patch' that patches the 'nroff.sh' script (later installed as 'nroff')
to invoke iconv with argument 'utf8'.

But 'utf8' is not a valid encoding name (it is not contained in the IANA
charset list <http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets>). The right
spelling is 'utf-8'.

The fix is to change the line

   iconv -s -c -f utf8 -t $LEGACY_ENCODING < $TMPDIR/input > $TMPDIR/input.new

into

   iconv -s -c -f utf-8 -t $LEGACY_ENCODING < $TMPDIR/input > $TMPDIR/input.new


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