From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-05-30T01:07:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Iconv buffer overflow?

Hi,

In message "Re: Iconv buffer overflow?"
    on Mon, 29 May 2006 23:32:48 +0900, "Victor Shepelev" <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> writes:

|Hi all.
|
|require 'iconv'
|max_length = 513
|str = ' ' * max_length 
|Iconv.new('utf-8', 'windows-1252').iconv(str)
|
|Error:in `Iconv#iconv': " " (Iconv::BrokenLibrary)
|
|If max_length <= 512, all is OK.
|
|1. Is it normal?
|2. Is it documented somewhere?

I suspect that it's caused by underlying iconv library on your
platform.  Could you show us your platform information?

It's OK on my Linux box.

							matz.