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| -rw-r--r-- | common/utf8conv.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/common/utf8conv.c b/common/utf8conv.c index 99cfc2d6d..a912b82ee 100644 --- a/common/utf8conv.c +++ b/common/utf8conv.c @@ -127,12 +127,10 @@ handle_iconv_error (const char *to, const char *from, int use_fallback) if (use_fallback) { - /* To avoid further error messages we fallback to Latin-1 for the - native encoding. This is justified as one can expect that on a - utf-8 enabled system nl_langinfo() will work and thus we won't - never get to here. Thus Latin-1 seems to be a reasonable - default. */ - active_charset_name = "iso-8859-1"; + /* To avoid further error messages we fallback to UTF-8 for the + native encoding. Nowadays this seems to be the best bet in + case of errors from iconv or nl_langinfo. */ + active_charset_name = "utf-8"; no_translation = 0; use_iconv = 0; } |