diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 81438c11b..c9fe0b093 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ phpMyAdmin - Changelog
 $Id$
 $Source$
 
+2003-06-01 Michal Cihar  <nijel@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * config.inc.php3, libraries/config_import.lib.php3: Default iconv
+      parameters to empty string, as older iconv version don't support it
+      (bug #747164).
+
 2003-06-01 Alexander M. Turek  <rabus@users.sourceforge.net>
     * lang/catalan-*.inc.php3: Updates, thanks to Xavier Navarro (xavin).
 
diff --git a/config.inc.php3 b/config.inc.php3
index f49cc5260..5e1a42baf 100755
--- a/config.inc.php3
+++ b/config.inc.php3
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ $cfg['RecodingEngine'] = 'auto';
 // Specify some parameters for iconv used in charset conversion. See iconv
 // documentation for details:
 // http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html 
-$cfg['IconvExtraParams'] = '//IGNORE';
+$cfg['IconvExtraParams'] = '';
 
 // Available charsets for MySQL conversion. currently contains all which could
 // be found in lang/* files and few more.
diff --git a/libraries/config_import.lib.php3 b/libraries/config_import.lib.php3
index 1eadea283..ee67051a4 100644
--- a/libraries/config_import.lib.php3
+++ b/libraries/config_import.lib.php3
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ if (!defined('PMA_CONFIG_IMPORT_LIB_INCLUDED')) {
     }
 
     if (!isset($cfg['IconvExtraParams'])) {
-        $cfg['IconvExtraParams'] = '//IGNORE';
+        $cfg['IconvExtraParams'] = '';
     }
 
     if (!isset($cfg['Lang']) &&isset($cfgLang)) {