diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0c4dacdc6..9b1885c6c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011-10-14  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
+
+	* Source/Additions/Unicode.m:
+	Fix test for availability of lossy conversion via iconv.
+
 2011-10-14  Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
 
 	* Source/GSString.m: Implement -hash for literal UTF-8 performance.
diff --git a/Source/Additions/Unicode.m b/Source/Additions/Unicode.m
index 5401a530f..200cefd9f 100644
--- a/Source/Additions/Unicode.m
+++ b/Source/Additions/Unicode.m
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ static void GSSetupEncodingTable(void)
 		  lossy = malloc(l + 11);
 		  strncpy(lossy, entry->iconv, l);
 		  strncpy(lossy + l, "//TRANSLIT", 11);
-		  c = iconv_open(UNICODE_ENC, entry->iconv);
+		  c = iconv_open(entry->iconv, UNICODE_ENC);
 		  if (c == (iconv_t)-1)
 		    {
 		      free(lossy);