Bug#272295: Unit test failure problem detected (buggy UTF-16 implementation upstream)

[Wolfgang Baer]

Hi Barry,

the unit test failure in lucene is caused by a buggy UTF-16
charset implementation upstream.

A patch is already proposed and I added additional information
and a testcase to the already existing upstream bug.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23008

There are two ways to go:

1) Patching kaffe with the proposed patch
2) Switching kaffe to use the iconv provider by default

I have currently a patch for kaffe to enable iconv only
for the non-default charsets (which would otherwise fail)

We will have to discuss that with Dalibor and Michael if
we should enable iconv provide as the default one.

Regards,
Wolfgang