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Libiconv - Converts between character encodings

libiconv converts from one character encoding to another through Unicode conversion (see Web page for full list of supported encodings).

It has also limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it is approximated through one or several similar looking characters. It is useful if your application needs to support multiple character encodings, but that support lacks from your system.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.9.1.tar.gz
Version 1.9.1 (stable) released on 2003-05-22
Licensed under LGPL.
This is a GNU package.

Support contacts

Announce List<linux-utf8@nl.linux.org>
Help List<bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org>
Developer List<bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org>
Bug List<bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org>

Project contacts

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Related information

Source repositoryUSER@cvs.libiconv.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libiconv http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=51585
Interfaceslibrary, console
Source languagesC
Supported languagesC, C++

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-06-07
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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