1 GNU LIBICONV - character set conversion library
3 This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which
4 don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
6 It provides support for the encodings:
9 ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16},
10 KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU,
11 CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866},
12 Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania},
13 Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish},
16 ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}
18 EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
20 EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5HKSCS,
21 ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT
23 EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB
27 Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
29 TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
38 UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
39 UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
40 UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
41 UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE
44 Full Unicode, in terms of `uint16_t' or `uint32_t'
45 (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
46 UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
47 Locale dependent, in terms of `char' or `wchar_t'
48 (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with OS and
49 locale dependent semantics)
52 It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode
55 It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character
56 cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated
57 through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is
58 activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name.
60 libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character
61 encodings, but that support lacks from your system.
65 As usual for GNU packages:
67 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
71 This library can be built and installed in two variants:
73 - The library mode. This works on all systems, and uses a library
74 `libiconv.so' and a header file `<iconv.h>'. (Both are installed
75 through "make install".)
77 To use it, simply #include <iconv.h> and use the functions.
79 To use it in an autoconfiguring package:
80 - If you don't use automake, append extras/iconv.m4 to your aclocal.m4
82 - If you do use automake, add extras/iconv.m4 to your m4 macro repository.
84 - The libc plug/override mode. This works on GNU/Linux, Solaris and OSF/1
85 systems only. It is a way to get good iconv support without having
87 It installs a library `libiconv_plug.so'. This library can be used with
88 LD_PRELOAD, to override the iconv* functions present in the C library.
90 On GNU/Linux and Solaris:
91 $ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so
94 $ export _RLD_LIST=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so:DEFAULT
96 A program's source need not be modified, the program need not even be
97 recompiled. Just set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, that's it!
101 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.6.1.tar.gz
102 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.6.1.tar.gz
105 http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
108 Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>