Hello! when executing the following code inside a toolbox, recode gives me an error
touch deleteme.txt
recode windows1251..utf8 deleteme.txt
Can someone help me?
Thank you for your time 
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edora @javier-hm
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If I run in a terminal the attached code I get
recode: /var/home/javier/IECO/single-line-diagram/deleteme.txt failed: System detected problem in step `CP1251..UTF-8'.
This error does not occur outside a toolbox
I can imagine that you not have the same character sets and surfaces available on both sides.
First i would check which linux version you use in the toolbox and then compare the different app versions you use with recode.
Interesting to know would be on both sides which:
locales you have available and iconv version you use.
As you see on the description below, there are a lot of combinations possible.
Description : The recode tool and library convert files between character sets and surfaces.
It recognizes or produces over 200 different character sets (or about 300 if
- : combined with an iconv library) and transliterates files between almost any
- : pair. When exact transliteration is not possible, it gets rid of the offending
- : character or falls back on an approximations.
I was able to reproduce this issue using Fedora Workstation 36, fully upgraded. I created a fresh toolbox with Fedora 36 as well:
toolbox create recodetest
Now, both inside and outside of the toolbox, I can verify the version of iconv and recode match exactly (2.35 and 3.7.9 respectively).
Now, the installed langpacks differ. Apparently, the Container Image does not have glibc-all-langpacks installed by default. After installing that package in the toolbox the result is still the same:
$ recode windows1251..utf8 deleteme.txt
recode: /<homedir>/deleteme.txt failed: System detected problem in step `CP1251..UTF-8'
@ilikelinux Do you have any idea on what else could be causing the error?
I can reproduce this error with podman directly (by running a Fedora 36 container). The issue is not reproducible when using an Ubuntu container, so it is probably related to the Fedora 36 image/system configuration. No idea what could be the issue though. 
I asked this question in Unix&Linux as well:
They replied with a fix.
From the toolbox:
sudo dnf install -y recode glibc-gconv-extra