diff -ru aptitude-0.4.4.orig/src/vscreen/transcode.cc aptitude-0.4.4.orig+iPhone/src/vscreen/transcode.cc
--- aptitude-0.4.4.orig/src/vscreen/transcode.cc	2006-10-27 04:26:08.000000000 +0000
+++ aptitude-0.4.4.orig+iPhone/src/vscreen/transcode.cc	2008-05-13 09:30:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@
   while(inremaining>0)
     {
       if(iconv(state,
-	       const_cast<char **>(&inbuf), &inremaining,
+	       &inbuf, &inremaining,
 	       &outbufcur, &outremaining) == ((size_t)-1))
 	{
 	  // Some error conditions can be corrected.  There are three
@@ -154,7 +155,7 @@
 	      const char *errbuf = "?";
 	      size_t errbufsize = strlen(errbuf);
 
-	      result = iconv(state2, const_cast<char **>(&errbuf),
+	      result = iconv(state2, &errbuf,
 			     &errbufsize, &outbufcur, &outremaining);
 
 
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@
 		  outbuf = (char *) realloc(outbuf, outbufsize);
 		  outbufcur = outbuf+idx;
 
-		  result = iconv(state2, const_cast<char **>(&errbuf),
+		  result = iconv(state2, &errbuf,
 				 &errbufsize, &outbufcur, &outremaining);
 		}