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Subject: Re: libxml2 encoding problems on pre-10.0 FreeBSDs
From: Koop Mast <kwm@rainbow-runner.nl>
To: Cyril Kalinchikov <cyr.k@me.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:19:00 +0200
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On do, 2014-05-15 at 08:15 +0000, Cyril Kalinchikov wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Apparently in the current ports snapshot the libxml2 port cannot "find" iconv installed (in a package) and thus only supports utf-8/ascii internal encodings.
> 
> Example (in PHP):
> $xml = new SimpleXMLElement('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?><orders></orders>');
> 
> This fails with the "Unsupported encoding" error. Works on FreeBSD 10+ (where iconv is in the base system).
> This is pretty critical for us.
> 
> Thanks for a quick fix.

Could you try the following patch?
http://people.freebsd.org/~kwm/libxml2-iconv.diff