Re: reported a iconv improvement and now feel bad

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> writes:
> $ echo x|iconv -f big5 -t gb2132
> iconv: conversion from `big5' to `gb2132' not supported
> 
> All I did was suggest that maybe iconv could tell the user which one
> of the args caused the problem, since I bet it knows which.  [user
> spelled gb2312 wrong]
> 
> Anyways, I got into a big argument and I dont feel like sending any
> more bugs to the libc bug address

Because it is not a bug, it is a feature request.  The person who
suggested the feature is usually the one who has to implement it.  Some
times you get lucky and the maintainer implements it if it is trivial.

Cheers,
-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt