[Buildroot] iconv: additional encodings

Jan Pohanka xhpohanka at gmail.com
Thu Oct 31 20:23:35 UTC 2013


I will answer myself: GCONV_PATH variable is the solution. It must
point into /usr/lib/gconv!

2013/10/31 Jan Pohanka <xhpohanka at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using buildroot for creating a filesystem on armhf target. Target is
> selected as external and it is Linaro 2013.04. iconv is a part of glibc in
> such configuration as far as I know. I have also selected "Copy GCONV
> libraries to target" option and "Generate locale data" for cs_CZ.CP1250
> cs_CZ.UTF-8 cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2 - I'm interested mainly in these encodings.
>
> Unfortunately in such case iconv -l still shows only a few basic encodings
> but ISO-8859-2 nor CP1250 are present. (CP1250.so and ISO8859-2.so exists in
> /usr/lib/gconv)
>
> Is it possible to add required encodings iconv support somehow, please?
>
> with best regards
> Jan


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