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ICONV - Charset Conversion Library. Version 1.0
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This distribution contains the library (libiconv.a and .so) for
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conversion between various charsets (character encoding schemes)
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and the command line utility (iconv).
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Syntax of the library functions (iconv_open, iconv, iconv_close)
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and the utility is described in the man pages.
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Features of the library:
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- small size: the actual conversion methods are located
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in dynamically loaded shared modules, representing
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either a character encoding scheme (CES), or a coded
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character set (CCS);
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- open module API: adding new modules (both CESs and
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CCSs) is easy. Although the API has not been documented,
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it is rather simple to be figured out from the sources;
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- BSD-style copyright;
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- POSIX compliance of iconv_open, iconv and iconv_close
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functions;
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- support for aliases for charset names via UNIX symbolic
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links;
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- ISO/IEC 10646 conformance of the internal representation
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of characters; conversion is always done in two steps:
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(1) a sequence of zero or more bytes from input buffer
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coded in the source charset is converted to exactly one
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valid UCS-4 character and (2) the UCS-4 character is
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converted to a sequence of zero or more bytes in
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the target charset to the output buffer;
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- standard sources of CCS tables: all C source files of
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the tables have been generated by a Perl script from
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the Unicode and RFC1345 charset mapping tables before
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being included to the package.
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Konstantin Chuguev
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<Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>
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September 2000.
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