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authorJeremy Messenger <mezz@FreeBSD.org>2006-05-16 15:59:23 +0000
committerJeremy Messenger <mezz@FreeBSD.org>2006-05-16 15:59:23 +0000
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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.
-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, 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
-
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
@@ -43,4 +9,6 @@ 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.
+See in either README or website for the list of support encodings.
+
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/