while not a requirement, it's common convention in other iconv
implementations to accept "CHAR" as an alias for nl_langinfo(CODESET),
meaning the encoding used for char[] strings in the current locale,
and also "" as an alternate form. supporting this is not costly and
improves compatibility.
* 3. Character table (size determined by field 2). */
static const unsigned char charmaps[] =
-"utf8\0\0\310"
+"utf8\0char\0\0\310"
"wchart\0\0\306"
"ucs2\0ucs2be\0\0\304"
"ucs2le\0\0\305"
static size_t find_charmap(const void *name)
{
const unsigned char *s;
+ if (!*(char *)name) name=charmaps; /* "utf8" */
for (s=charmaps; *s; ) {
if (!fuzzycmp(name, s)) {
for (; *s; s+=strlen((void *)s)+1);