On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 4:36 PM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:26 AM Philippe Blain <philippe.blain@xxxxxx> wrote: > > ... > > > I am not an iconv expert - and don't intend to become one. > > > The UTF-8-MAC conversion does probably only exist in the > > > code for iconv shipped on Mac OS - so it could happen that this > > > code is not open source. > > > > Yes, this encoding only exists in the Apple fork of iconv, > > which is open-source (probably because of the original > > license); tarballs can be found at [2]. However in typical Apple fashion > > the versioning of their iconv fork is kind of undecipherable and hard to relate to the > > upstream iconv versioning. > > > > Also, I searched the iconv mailing list [3] when I came across this error and the consensus > > seemed to be that they do not intend to add this encoding upstream. > > > > [1] https://github.com/conda-forge/git-feedstock/issues/50 > > [2] https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/libiconv/ > > [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=utf-8-mac&submit=Search%21&idxname=bug-gnu-libiconv&max=20&result=normal&sort=score > > Thanks Phillipe. > > I found two sources for libiconv with UTF-8-Mac. First is a GitHub at > https://github.com/fumiyas/libiconv-utf8mac. The second is the > opensource.apple.com link you provided at [2]. > > The GitHub claims to be layered on top of libiconv 1.16, but I was not > able to get a working tarball from it. It looks like Apple's > libiconv-59.tar.gz is the answer to this problem. I had to punt on Apple's port. libiconv-59.tar.gz is libiconv-1.11. It is too old to be useful. libiconv-utf8mac is based on libiconv-1.16 and worked fine. It took my patches after I figured out the complete procedure. On the upside, libiconv-utf8mac works on Linux and Solaris too. So there is support for UTF-8-Mac if needed. Jeff
