2 @section @code{iconv_open}
5 POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html}
7 Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf
9 Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{iconv} or @code{iconv_open}:
12 GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}.
14 No converter from EUC-JP to UTF-8 is provided on some platforms:
18 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open}:
21 This function recognizes only non-standard aliases for many encodings (not
22 the IANA registered encoding names) on many platforms:
23 AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11.
26 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open-utf}:
29 This function does not support the encodings UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE,
30 UTF-32LE on many platforms:
31 AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8.
34 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
37 This function is missing on some platforms:
38 Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS,
39 when GNU libiconv is not installed.
41 For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B,
42 although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This
43 occurs on some platforms: Solaris 11 2010-11. Gnulib provides a higher-level
44 facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with
47 The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent.