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- LIBICONV - character set conversion library
-
- This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which
- don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
-
- It provides support for the encodings:
-
- European languages
- ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16},
- KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU,
- CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866},
- Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania},
- Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish},
- Macintosh
- Semitic languages
- ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}
- Japanese
- EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
- Chinese
- EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5HKSCS,
- ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT
- Korean
- EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR
- Armenian
- ARMSCII-8
- Georgian
- Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
- Thai
- TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
- Laotian
- MuleLao-1, CP1133
- Vietnamese
- VISCII, TCVN, CP1258
- Platform specifics
- HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP
- Full Unicode
- UTF-8
- UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
- UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
- UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
- UTF-7
- JAVA
- Full Unicode, in terms of `uint16_t' or `uint32_t'
- (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
- UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
-
- It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode
- conversion. It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e.
- when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can
- be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters.
-
- libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character
- encodings, but that support lacks from your system.
-
- Installation:
-
- As usual for GNU packages:
-
- $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
- $ make
- $ make install
-
- This library can be built and installed in two variants:
-
- - The library mode. This works on all systems, and uses a library
- `libiconv.so' and a header file `<iconv.h>'. (Both are installed
- through "make install".)
-
- To use it, simply #include <iconv.h> and use the functions.
-
- - The libc plug/override mode. This works on GNU/Linux, Solaris and OSF/1
- systems only. It is a way to get good iconv support without having
- glibc-2.1.
- It installs a library `libiconv_plug.so'. This library can be used with
- LD_PRELOAD, to override the iconv* functions present in the C library.
-
- On GNU/Linux and Solaris:
- $ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so
-
- On OSF/1:
- $ export _RLD_LIST=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so:DEFAULT
-
- A program's source need not be modified, the program need not even be
- recompiled. Just set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, that's it!
-
-
- Distribution:
- ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.4.tar.gz
-
- Homepage:
- http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
-
-
- Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
-