#4 [unaccent] unac_string: Invalid argument

[Rémi Perrot]

I've just install the new 1.2.0 unac package and
when I try this
$ unaccent ISO_8859-1 été
I've got that
unac_string: Invalid argument

$ldd /usr/bin/unaccent
libunac.so.1 => /usr/lib/libunac.so.1 (0x40018000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40022000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

and my libc is /lib/libc-2.1.3.so

I also try ISO-8859-1, iso_8859-1 and iso-8859-1 with
the same resule

[Loic Dachary]

Invalid argument == iconv cannot find the transition to UTF-16BE. You
must install libiconv (see README file for pointers).

I agree that this is unconvenient, though. I'll try to find a way to be
more backward compatible for the next version. Ideas are wellcome.
I guess using examinging Unicode BOM at compile time would allow
to find out if UTF-16 is big or little endian, if UTF-16BE is available. If
UTF-16BE is available, nothing to be done. If not available, figure out
what is the endianess of UTF-16. If big endian, nothing to be done, use
it. If little endian, activate (define ?) code to assume little endian instead of big endian as is the case currently.