Merge branch 'master' into fix-build

Author: bodograumann

.github/workflows/test.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         os: ["ubuntu-latest", "windows-latest", "macos-latest"]
-        python-version: ['3.6', '3.7', '3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', '3.14']
+        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13', '3.14']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v5

README.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ To install the module use
 
 This module package requires at least Python 3.6, a corresponding version of
 libffi and the native iconv library.
+It is only tested with Python 3.8 and higher though.
 
 Module iconv
 ------------

iconvcodec.py

@@ -80,8 +80,14 @@ def _iconv_decode_impl(decoder, msg, errors, bufsize=None):
 
 
 def codec_factory(encoding):
-    encoder = iconv.open(encoding, "utf-8")
-    decoder = iconv.open("utf-8", encoding)
+    # Workaround for https://github.com/bodograumann/python-iconv/issues/4
+    _encoding = encoding \
+        .replace("_translit", "//TRANSLIT") \
+        .replace("_ignore", "//IGNORE") \
+        .replace("_non_identical_discard", "//NON_IDENTICAL_DISCARD")
+
+    encoder = iconv.open(_encoding, "utf-8")
+    decoder = iconv.open("utf-8", _encoding)
 
     def encode(inp, errors="strict"):
         msg = inp.encode()