Comment # 2 on bug 1225340 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #0)
> The package psmisc does not build anymore due to
> 
> [   21s] el.1po: 92 translated messages.
> [   21s] /usr/bin/msgfmt: Cannot convert from "ISO-8859-1" to "UTF-8".
> msgfmt relies on iconv(). This version was built without iconv().
> 
> 
> means msgfmt from gettext-runtime is missing the major feature iconv(3)

considering the package psmisc builds perfectly fail in Factory (it's part of
Ring1 after all) I am convinced nothing in Factory is responsible for the
breakage - it must be limited to something in the devel project (Base:System)

most likely glibc - which is just undergoing some rework in this area
  https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1177069

CC Andreas Schwab