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diff --git a/converters/libiconv/pkg-descr b/converters/libiconv/pkg-descr index 6bec6d542ce8..52c04d04d56c 100644 --- a/converters/libiconv/pkg-descr +++ b/converters/libiconv/pkg-descr @@ -1,40 +1,6 @@ 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/ |