 src/manconv.c        | 7 ++++++-
 src/manconv_client.c | 4 ++++
 src/whatis.c         | 4 ++++
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git src/manconv.c src/manconv.c
index b9ac8d3a..8f5bdaee 100644
--- a/src/manconv.c
+++ b/src/manconv.c
@@ -111,9 +111,14 @@ static int try_iconv (pipeline *p, const char *try_from_code, const char *to,
 	iconv_t cd_utf8, cd = NULL;
 	bool to_utf8 = STREQ (try_to_code, "UTF-8") ||
 		       STRNEQ (try_to_code, "UTF-8//", 7);
-	const char *utf8_target = last ? "UTF-8//IGNORE" : "UTF-8";
 	bool ignore_errors = (strstr (try_to_code, "//IGNORE") != NULL);
 	int ret = 0;
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
+	const char *utf8_target = last ? "UTF-8//IGNORE" : "UTF-8";
+#else /* __GLIBC__ */
+	const char *utf8_target = "UTF-8";
+	last = false;
+#endif /* ! __GLIBC__ */
 
 	debug ("trying encoding %s -> %s\n", try_from_code, try_to_code);
 
diff --git src/manconv_client.c src/manconv_client.c
index 0c41bec6..2a7f1398 100644
--- a/src/manconv_client.c
+++ b/src/manconv_client.c
@@ -102,7 +102,11 @@ void add_manconv (pipeline *p, const char *source, const char *target)
 		gl_list_add_last (codes->from, xstrdup (source));
 		name = appendstr (name, "UTF-8:", source, (void *) 0);
 	}
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
 	codes->to = xasprintf ("%s//IGNORE", target);
+#else /* __GLIBC__ */
+	codes->to = xasprintf ("%s", target);
+#endif /* ! __GLIBC__ */
 	/* informational only; no shell quoting concerns */
 	name = appendstr (name, " -t ", codes->to, (void *) 0);
 	if (quiet >= 2)
diff --git src/whatis.c src/whatis.c
index d2559169..ec80c117 100644
--- a/src/whatis.c
+++ b/src/whatis.c
@@ -945,9 +945,13 @@ int main (int argc, char *argv[])
 	display_seen = new_string_set (GL_HASH_SET);
 
 #ifdef HAVE_ICONV
+#ifdef __GLIBC__
 	locale_charset = xasprintf ("%s//IGNORE", get_locale_charset ());
 	conv_to_locale = iconv_open (locale_charset, "UTF-8");
 	free (locale_charset);
+#else /* __GLIBC__ */
+	conv_to_locale = iconv_open(get_locale_charset (), "UTF-8");
+#endif /* ! __GLIBC__ */
 #endif /* HAVE_ICONV */
 
 	if (regex_opt) {
