Annotation of embedaddon/libiconv/README, revision 1.1
1.1 ! misho 1: GNU LIBICONV - character set conversion library
! 2:
! 3: This library provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which
! 4: don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
! 5:
! 6: It provides support for the encodings:
! 7:
! 8: European languages
! 9: ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16},
! 10: KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU,
! 11: CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866,1131},
! 12: Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania},
! 13: Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish},
! 14: Macintosh
! 15: Semitic languages
! 16: ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}
! 17: Japanese
! 18: EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1
! 19: Chinese
! 20: EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, CP936, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5-HKSCS,
! 21: BIG5-HKSCS:2001, BIG5-HKSCS:1999, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT
! 22: Korean
! 23: EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB
! 24: Armenian
! 25: ARMSCII-8
! 26: Georgian
! 27: Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
! 28: Tajik
! 29: KOI8-T
! 30: Kazakh
! 31: PT154, RK1048
! 32: Thai
! 33: ISO-8859-11, TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
! 34: Laotian
! 35: MuleLao-1, CP1133
! 36: Vietnamese
! 37: VISCII, TCVN, CP1258
! 38: Platform specifics
! 39: HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP
! 40: Full Unicode
! 41: UTF-8
! 42: UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
! 43: UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
! 44: UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
! 45: UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE
! 46: UTF-7
! 47: C99, JAVA
! 48: Full Unicode, in terms of `uint16_t' or `uint32_t'
! 49: (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
! 50: UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
! 51: Locale dependent, in terms of `char' or `wchar_t'
! 52: (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with OS and
! 53: locale dependent semantics)
! 54: char, wchar_t
! 55: The empty encoding name "" is equivalent to "char": it denotes the
! 56: locale dependent character encoding.
! 57:
! 58: When configured with the option --enable-extra-encodings, it also provides
! 59: support for a few extra encodings:
! 60:
! 61: European languages
! 62: CP{437,737,775,852,853,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125}
! 63: Semitic languages
! 64: CP864
! 65: Japanese
! 66: EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3
! 67: Chinese
! 68: BIG5-2003 (experimental)
! 69: Turkmen
! 70: TDS565
! 71: Platform specifics
! 72: ATARIST, RISCOS-LATIN1
! 73:
! 74: It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode
! 75: conversion.
! 76:
! 77: It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character
! 78: cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated
! 79: through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is
! 80: activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name.
! 81:
! 82: libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character
! 83: encodings, but that support lacks from your system.
! 84:
! 85:
! 86: Installation
! 87: ------------
! 88:
! 89: As usual for GNU packages:
! 90:
! 91: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
! 92: $ make
! 93: $ make install
! 94:
! 95: After installing GNU libiconv for the first time, it is recommended to
! 96: recompile and reinstall GNU gettext, so that it can take advantage of
! 97: libiconv.
! 98:
! 99: On systems other than GNU/Linux, the iconv program will be internationalized
! 100: only if GNU gettext has been built and installed before GNU libiconv. This
! 101: means that the first time GNU libiconv is installed, we have a circular
! 102: dependency between the GNU libiconv and GNU gettext packages, which can be
! 103: resolved by building and installing either
! 104: - first libiconv, then gettext, then libiconv again,
! 105: or (on systems supporting shared libraries, excluding AIX)
! 106: - first gettext, then libiconv, then gettext again.
! 107: Recall that before building a package for the second time, you need to erase
! 108: the traces of the first build by running "make distclean".
! 109:
! 110: This library can be built and installed in two variants:
! 111:
! 112: - The library mode. This works on all systems, and uses a library
! 113: `libiconv.so' and a header file `<iconv.h>'. (Both are installed
! 114: through "make install".)
! 115:
! 116: To use it, simply #include <iconv.h> and use the functions.
! 117:
! 118: To use it in an autoconfiguring package:
! 119: - If you don't use automake, append m4/iconv.m4 to your aclocal.m4
! 120: file.
! 121: - If you do use automake, add m4/iconv.m4 to your m4 macro repository.
! 122: - Add to the link command line of libraries and executables that use
! 123: the functions the placeholder @LIBICONV@ (or, if using libtool for
! 124: the link, @LTLIBICONV@). If you use automake, the right place for
! 125: these additions are the *_LDADD variables.
! 126: Note that 'iconv.m4' is also part of the GNU gettext package, which
! 127: installs it in /usr/local/share/aclocal/iconv.m4.
! 128:
! 129: - The libc plug/override mode. This works on GNU/Linux, Solaris and OSF/1
! 130: systems only. It is a way to get good iconv support without having
! 131: glibc-2.1.
! 132: It installs a library `preloadable_libiconv.so'. This library can be used
! 133: with LD_PRELOAD, to override the iconv* functions present in the C library.
! 134:
! 135: On GNU/Linux and Solaris:
! 136: $ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/preloadable_libiconv.so
! 137:
! 138: On OSF/1:
! 139: $ export _RLD_LIST=/usr/local/lib/preloadable_libiconv.so:DEFAULT
! 140:
! 141: A program's source need not be modified, the program need not even be
! 142: recompiled. Just set the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, that's it!
! 143:
! 144:
! 145: Copyright
! 146: ---------
! 147:
! 148: The libiconv and libcharset _libraries_ and their header files are under LGPL,
! 149: see file COPYING.LIB.
! 150:
! 151: The iconv _program_ and the documentation are under GPL, see file COPYING.
! 152:
! 153:
! 154: Download
! 155: --------
! 156:
! 157: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
! 158:
! 159: Homepage
! 160: --------
! 161:
! 162: http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
! 163:
! 164: Bug reports to
! 165: --------------
! 166:
! 167: <bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org>
! 168:
! 169:
! 170: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
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