Opened 6 weeks ago
Last modified 6 weeks ago
#70670 closed defect
iconv on macOS Ventura 13.6+ does not perform correct conversions — at Version 1
Reported by: | seamusdemora (Seamus) | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
Component: | ports | Version: | 2.10.1 |
Keywords: | Cc: | ||
Port: | libiconv |
Description (last modified by seamusdemora (Seamus))
I'm trying to do something that seems simple (it can be done simply on my Linux box):
I have C&P a line from a PDF file (a French programming guide), to Terminal.app: 'print("Numéro de boucle", i)'
I wanted to convert this line to ASCII before pasting into my editor. So I used 'iconv' as shown below. In each case, I used 'file' to check the "from" encoding :
% echo 'print("Numéro de boucle", i)' | file - /dev/stdin: Unicode text, UTF-8 text % echo 'print("Numéro de boucle", i)' | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit print("Num'ero de boucle", i) ?!?!?!? I tried another example: % echo "print("Protégé. Señorita. Coup de grâce", i)" | file - /dev/stdin: Unicode text, UTF-8 text % echo 'Protégé Señorita Coup de grâce' | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT Prot'eg'e Se~norita Coup de gr^ace
PLEASE NOTE: I have also tried using 'utf-8-mac' and 'utf8-mac' for the "from" encoding; thhis had no effect on the results - they were identical in all cases.
As you can see, this is not correct: a single quote has been added. I'm not a frequent user of 'iconv', so I checked this on my Debian 'bookworm' Linux box:
$ echo 'print("Numéro de boucle", i)' | iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//translit print("Numero de boucle", i)
I've checked to confirm that the version of 'iconv' on my macOS Ventura 13.6+ is one from MacPorts. I believe that it is:
% whereis iconv iconv: /usr/bin/iconv /opt/local/share/man/man1/iconv.1.gz % port installed requested The following ports are currently installed: ... libiconv @1.17_0 (active) ... %
And confirmation of my macports version:
% port -v MacPorts 2.10.1
I can accept that it's broken, and I can accept that it can't be fixed (if that turns out to be the case). But I surely would appreciate an explanation of what has gone wrong - especially if it's something that I am doing incorrectly!
Rgds, ~S
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