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Subject: Re: What does "properly support iconv" in git Makefile (NO_ICONV) mean?
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Gaah, I have some problems accessing the Gentoo bug database.
> Is the problem that iconv does not exist in libc, or it exist but 
> misbehaves?

In small configurations that do not care about i18n, it is often
done to give iconv routines that is noop/ident in order to make
the programs compile and run.