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iconv ASCII//TRANSLIT invalid argument

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, php
Domain
devops

Research direction

Reproduce the command shown with the php:8.3-fpm-alpine image and compare it with the Ubuntu result described in the issue. Trace the image's iconv support and determine what image-level change would make ASCII//TRANSLIT work; done means the command accepts the destination charset and transliterates é successfully.

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Description

With php:8.3-fpm-alpine image, I encountered an error when using iconv with TRANSLIT argument.

echo é | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT
iconv: destination charset ASCII//TRANSLIT: Invalid argument

On Ubuntu with iconv 2.35, this command works correctly.

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