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| .TH ICONV_OPEN 3 "January 3, 2000" "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| iconv_open \- allocate descriptor for character set conversion |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .nf |
| .B #include <iconv.h> |
| .sp |
| .BI "iconv_t iconv_open (const char* " tocode ", const char* " fromcode ); |
| .fi |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| The \fBiconv_open\fP function allocates a conversion descriptor suitable |
| for converting byte sequences from character encoding \fIfromcode\fP to |
| character encoding \fItocode\fP. |
| .PP |
| The values permitted for \fIfromcode\fP and \fItocode\fP and the supported |
| combinations are system dependent. For the libiconv library, the following |
| encodings are supported, in all combinations. |
| .TP |
| European languages |
| ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15}, 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 |
| .TP |
| Semitic languages |
| ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic} |
| .TP |
| Japanese |
| EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1 |
| .TP |
| Chinese |
| EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT |
| .TP |
| Korean |
| EUC-KR, JOHAB, ISO-2022-KR |
| .TP |
| Armenian |
| ARMSCII-8 |
| .TP |
| Georgian |
| Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS |
| .TP |
| Thai |
| TIS-620, CP874, MacThai |
| .TP |
| Laotian |
| MuleLao-1, CP1133 |
| .TP |
| Vietnamese |
| VISCII, TCVN, CP1258 |
| .TP |
| Platform specifics |
| HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP |
| .TP |
| Full Unicode |
| UTF-8, UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-16, UTF-7, JAVA |
| .TP |
| Full Unicode, in terms of \fBuint16_t\fP or \fBuint32_t\fP |
| (with machine dependent endianness and alignment) |
| UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL |
| .PP |
| The resulting conversion descriptor can be used with \fBiconv\fP any number |
| of times. It remains valid until deallocated using \fBiconv_close\fP. |
| .PP |
| A conversion descriptor contains a conversion state. After creation using |
| \fBiconv_open\fP, the state is in the initial state. Using \fBiconv\fP |
| modifies the descriptor's conversion state. (This implies that a conversion |
| descriptor can not be used in multiple threads simultaneously.) To bring the |
| state back to the initial state, use \fBiconv\fP with NULL as \fIinbuf\fP |
| argument. |
| .SH "RETURN VALUE" |
| The \fBiconv_open\fP function returns a freshly allocated conversion |
| descriptor. In case of error, it sets \fBerrno\fP and returns (iconv_t)(-1). |
| .SH ERRORS |
| The following error can occur, among others: |
| .TP |
| .B EINVAL |
| The conversion from \fIfromcode\fP to \fItocode\fP is not supported by the |
| implementation. |
| .SH "CONFORMING TO" |
| UNIX98 |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR iconv "(3), " iconv_close (3) |
