[PyQt] iconv_open failed

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I am trying to run pyqt4.4.3 on mini2440 building image using OE.

I copied sip.so to lib/python2.6/site-packages.

When I try and execute the following from python editor
>>> import sys
>>> from PyQt4.QtGui import QApplication, QPushButton
>>> app = QApplication(sys.argv)

QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open
failed
QIconvCodec::convertToUnicode: using ASCII for conversion, iconv_open
failed
Alignment trap: helloButton.py (2225) PC=0x4169a2fc Instr=0x28001c04
Address=0xffffffff FSR 0x813
Segmentation fault


Running strace on the program shows:
open("/usr/lib/gconv/UTF-16.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
write(2, "QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode:"...,
79QIconvCodec::convertFromUnicode: using ASCII for conversion,
iconv_open failed
) = 79



Any ideas?
Thanks