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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:02:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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cc: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: [gcj-3.2]: US locale [8859_1] coding is not supported
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On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was trying to compile a java app with gcj.  The application had a
> > configure script and was designed with the intention of being
> > compiled with gcj.  It passes this flag (along with others) during
> > compile time:
> >
> > "--encoding=8859_1"
> >
> > which results in failure:
> >
> > " [...]unknown encoding: `8859_1'
> >   This might mean that your locale's encoding is not supported
> >   by your system's iconv(3) implementation.  If you aren't trying
> >   to use a particular encoding for your input file, try the
> >   `--encoding=UTF-8' option"
> >
> > Sure I could just use UTF-8, which is working perfectly fine [in most
> > cases, but not all], but I find it a little bizarre that US encodings
> > would not be supported.  Just thought I'd give you a heads up.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Nicholas
>
> Nicholas,
>
> This is just a WAG, but try specifying the encoding as 'iso_8859_1' or
> 'iso8859_1'...
>         Igor

Some more info on this:
A quick search on google turned up the following thread:

http://w6.metronet.com/~wjm/tomcat/2001/May/msg00729.html

that seems related.
HTH,
	Igor
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