[Vm-dev] Solaris vs. iconv: workaround

I've been experiencing Squeak on Solaris printing

iconv_open: Invalid argument

a zillion times over.

Looking at the mailing list archives, this has been a problem on and off for a long time. I first tried compiling with --disable-iconv, which fixed the error, but then some of the plugins complained that they couldn't convert strings. So I decided against that.

I've managed to work around it by as follows:

su - cd /usr/lib/iconv cp mac%alt.so MACINTOSH%UTF-8.so cp alt%mac.so UTF-8%MACINTOSH.so

This seems to shut up all the messages. But I'm nervous, since I suspect that "alt" probably isn't the whole of UTF8...

Andrew