Silly question about iconv

[Tom Horsley]

If I run "iconv --list" it sticks "//" on the end of every
encoding name, but I don't need the "//" when specifying
a to or from encoding name.

Does anyone have the slightest clue why the slashes
are there in the listing output?

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/04/18 23:27, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  If I run "iconv --list" it sticks "//" on the end
> of every
>  encoding name, but I don't need the "//" when specifying
>  a to or from encoding name.
>
>  Does anyone have the slightest clue why the slashes
>  are there in the listing output? 
I do not see that behavior....   Unless I | the output to more, less, or cat.


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[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 02:31:16 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:

>  I do not see that behavior....   Unless I | the output to more, less,
> or cat. 
Yep. If I run it in a terminal I don't see it either.
I was running it as a shell command under emacs (which
would send output to a pipe), and that's where
I get the slashes. It is still weird though :-).

[Sam Varshavchik]

Tom Horsley writes:

>  On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 02:31:16 +0800
>  Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>  > I do not see that behavior....   Unless I | the output to more, less, or  
>  cat.
>
>  Yep. If I run it in a terminal I don't see it either.
>  I was running it as a shell command under emacs (which
>  would send output to a pipe), and that's where
>  I get the slashes. It is still weird though :-). 
The man page for iconv_open() gives you a clue.

[Tom Horsley]

On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:22:10 -0500
Sam Varshavchik wrote:

>  The man page for iconv_open() gives you a clue. 
So it does. Thanks!