| LIBICONV - character set conversion library |
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| This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which |
| don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. |
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| It provides support for the encodings: |
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| 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, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, 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 |
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| 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. |
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| libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character |
| encodings, but that support lacks from your system. |
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| Installation: |
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| As usual for GNU packages: |
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| $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local |
| $ make |
| $ make install |
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| This library can be built and installed in two variants: |
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| - 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".) |
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| To use it, simply #include <iconv.h> and use the functions. |
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| - 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. |
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| On GNU/Linux and Solaris: |
| $ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so |
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| On OSF/1: |
| $ export _RLD_LIST=/usr/local/lib/libiconv_plug.so:DEFAULT |
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| 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! |
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| Distribution: |
| ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.3.tar.gz |
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| Homepage: |
| http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html |
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| Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> |
