libxml2 encoding problems on pre-10.0 FreeBSDs

[Koop Mast]

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