[MBT] new ticket for pkg recode "Doesn't convert into ..pc"

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Date: 2003-07-28 14:58:34+02	Author:  (kreutzm) <kreutzm at itp.uni-hannover.de> 
Title:         Doesn't convert into ..pc
Ticket ID:     #720
Ticket URL:    http://bugs.pld-linux.org/?bug=720
Package:       recode-1:3.6-1
Distribution:  PLD-1.0.main
Category:      doesn't work as it should
Current state: opened
Text:

kreutzm at zola:.../texte/InterFer/iferpaper[578] % recode -v ..pc blub.tex            
Request: CHAR..:libiconv:..ISO-8859-1..IBM-PC/CR-LF
Shrunk to: CHAR..ISO-8859-1..IBM-PC/CR-LF
Recoding blub.tex... failed: System detected problem in step `CHAR..ISO-8859-1'

I tried to compare the strace output of a machine where it works (locally compiled version on RH 6.2)

After digging a little around (and comparing with a Debian box), the command
recode ISO-8859-1..pc blub.tex

actually works. Trying the "wrong" command above von Debian yields me:
recode: blub.tex failed: Invalid input in step `CHAR..ISO-8859-1'

This is much informative than "problem detected". 

So there are two problems:

*)Wrong info in man page
*)Not so informative as possible error message.

And, on some systems it even works as intendend, so maybe it is also a bug in recode itself?