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Problem: error in iconv_open

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Hello all, this is a rather strange problem.

I was asked recently to try and port AESCrypt

http://www.aescrypt.com/linux_aes_crypt.html

make went fine after modifying the makefile. After making the 
executable file, though, testing it will always give me this:

[U:\progetti\aescrypt305_source\src]make -f makefile.os2 testfile
./aescrypt -e -p "praxis" test.orig.txt
Error in iconv_open: Invalid argument
make: *** [testfile] Error 255

Searching the password.c file (which contains iconv_open) I came 
across these sentences:

/*
 *  passwd_to_utf16
 *
 *  Convert String to UTF-16LE for windows compatibility
 */
int passwd_to_utf16(char *in_passwd,
                    int length,
                    int max_length,
                    char *out_passwd)
{
    char *ic_outbuf,
         *ic_inbuf;
    iconv_t condesc;
    size_t ic_inbytesleft,
           ic_outbytesleft;

    ic_inbuf = in_passwd;
    ic_inbytesleft = length;
    ic_outbytesleft = max_length;
    ic_outbuf = out_passwd;

    if ((condesc = iconv_open("UTF-16LE", nl_langinfo(CODESET))) == 
(iconv_t)(-1))
    {
        perror("Error in iconv_open");
        return -1;
    }

The remainder of the function calls iconv to convert the given 
password and use it.

It seems that the error is caused by the nl_langinfo(CODESET) call, 
which gives (on my system) "en_US"; this seems to cause the iconv_open
error.

Of course I tried substituting it with other ideas, like using getenv 
to retrieve the locale, but still got errors.

I tried to learn how iconv and iconv_open work, but it seems rather 
confusing to me.

Would someone of you be so kind to suggest me a way to circumvent this
problem? Having AES Crypt available would be useful.

Thanks in advance!
Mentore
-- 
Mentore Siesto

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Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-05 20:22 +0000
  Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 15:16 -0700
  Re: Problem: error in iconv_open KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-06-06 22:50 +0900
    Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-06 20:40 +0000
    Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-06 20:45 +0000
      Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 16:41 -0700
        Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-19 16:40 +0000
          Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 11:30 -0700
            Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-06-22 21:56 +0000
              Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-07-09 10:37 +0000
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-07-10 18:24 +0000
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open "Lars Erdmann" <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> - 2011-07-10 20:41 +0200
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-07-10 22:33 +0000
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open vsvidya7@gmail.com - 2013-01-21 03:00 -0800
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 12:07 -0700
      Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-06-08 00:45 +0000
        Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-08 20:49 +0000
        Re: Problem: error in iconv_open piesse <piesse@despammed.com> - 2011-06-09 22:28 +0200
          Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Mentore <mentore.siesto@libero.it> - 2011-06-13 03:33 -0700

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