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“man” cannot find “iconv”

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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: “man” cannot find “iconv”
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 22:27:52 +0200

Some man pages cannot be rendered:

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rekado in dev: LANG=en_US.utf8 man borg
man: can't execute iconv: No such file or directory
man: command exited with status 127: iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }' | (cd <fd 3> && LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page borg(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page borg(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=borg(1) cat)
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Things are fine when changing LANG to ISO-8895-1.
“iconv” is not in my PATH.

“man” is “/run/current-system/profile/bin/man” and that’s
“/gnu/store/7bf5c38dncykgx09m006s3cgh2lm1588-man-db-2.7.5/bin/man”.

~~ Ricardo

Message #8 received at 24373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: 24373 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: how to reproduce this
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 10:52:02 +0200

The environment variable that triggers the bug is “LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.utf8”,
which I have set in Emacs.

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$ LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.utf8 man borg
man: can't execute iconv: No such file or directory
man: command exited with status 127: iconv -c -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT | sed -e '/^[[:space:]]*$/{ N; /^[[:space:]]*\n[[:space:]]*$/D; }' | (cd <fd 3> && LESS=-ix8RmPm Manual page borg(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$PM Manual page borg(1) ?ltline %lt?L/%L.:byte %bB?s/%s..?e (END):?pB %pB\%.. (press h for help or q to quit)$ MAN_PN=borg(1) /gnu/store/hxz1cnl0bsxz5bir2gak1lq2hbg61bdk-less-481/bin/less)
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To fix this I submitted a patch to guix-devel a few minutes ago.  It
replaces “iconv” in src/man.c with the full path to glibc’s “iconv”.

~~ Ricardo

Message #13 received at 24373-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: 24373-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Fixed
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:54:11 +0200

Fixed with commit ea55a39530d6604cde07d5b23ba529a07a76ea7b.

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