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Review Type TSMA Review

Start Date null

Completed null

Status Complete

Review Recommendation No Resolution Given

Review Response
It seems that this is a case where the description of the iconv utility has
not specified the necessary behaviour in the case that the input files
contain stateful encodings. It is clear that a user of iconv would not expect
the behaviour of iconv to be dependent on the order of specification of the
input files as could be the case if the residual shift-state is not reset
prior to processing a new input file.

I would recommend an interpretation that mandated the resetting of the shift
state at the commencement of processing of each file in order that the
processing of each file is fully deterministic. Alternatively, it may be
accepted that iconv is only capable of translating one file per invocation
and that a syntactic change is necessary in the specification. This
alternative is a less attractive solution.

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Review Type	TSMA Review
Start Date	null
Completed	null
Status	Complete
Review Recommendation	No Resolution Given
Review Response	It seems that this is a case where the description of the iconv utility has not specified the necessary behaviour in the case that the input files contain stateful encodings. It is clear that a user of iconv would not expect the behaviour of iconv to be dependent on the order of specification of the input files as could be the case if the residual shift-state is not reset prior to processing a new input file. I would recommend an interpretation that mandated the resetting of the shift state at the commencement of processing of each file in order that the processing of each file is fully deterministic. Alternatively, it may be accepted that iconv is only capable of translating one file per invocation and that a syntactic change is necessary in the specification. This alternative is a less attractive solution.