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: ISO-2022-JP-MS
20: Chinese
21: EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, CP936, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5-HKSCS,
22: BIG5-HKSCS:2004, BIG5-HKSCS:2001, BIG5-HKSCS:1999, ISO-2022-CN,
23: ISO-2022-CN-EXT
24: Korean
25: EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB
26: Armenian
27: ARMSCII-8
28: Georgian
29: Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS
30: Tajik
31: KOI8-T
32: Kazakh
33: PT154, RK1048
34: Thai
35: ISO-8859-11, TIS-620, CP874, MacThai
36: Laotian
37: MuleLao-1, CP1133
38: Vietnamese
39: VISCII, TCVN, CP1258
40: Platform specifics
41: HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP
42: Full Unicode
43: UTF-8
44: UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
45: UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
46: UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
47: UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE
48: UTF-7
49: C99, JAVA
50: Full Unicode, in terms of 'uint16_t' or 'uint32_t'
51: (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
52: UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL
53: Locale dependent, in terms of 'char' or 'wchar_t'
54: (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with OS and
55: locale dependent semantics)
56: char, wchar_t
57: The empty encoding name "" is equivalent to "char": it denotes the
58: locale dependent character encoding.
59:
60: When configured with the option --enable-extra-encodings, it also provides
61: support for a few extra encodings:
62:
63: European languages
64: CP{437,737,775,852,853,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125}
65: Semitic languages
66: CP864
67: Japanese
68: EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3
69: Chinese
70: BIG5-2003 (experimental)
71: Turkmen
72: TDS565
73: Platform specifics
74: ATARIST, RISCOS-LATIN1
75:
76: It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode
77: conversion.
78:
79: It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character
80: cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated
81: through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is
82: activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name.
83:
84: libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character
85: encodings, but that support lacks from your system.
86:
87:
88: Installation
89: ------------
90:
91: As usual for GNU packages:
92:
93: $ ./configure --prefix=[[PREFIX]] where [[PREFIX]] is e.g. $HOME/local
94: $ make
95: $ make install
96:
97: After installing GNU libiconv for the first time, it is recommended to
98: recompile and reinstall GNU gettext, so that it can take advantage of
99: libiconv.
100:
101: On systems other than GNU/Linux, the iconv program will be internationalized
102: only if GNU gettext has been built and installed before GNU libiconv. This
103: means that the first time GNU libiconv is installed, we have a circular
104: dependency between the GNU libiconv and GNU gettext packages, which can be
105: resolved by building and installing either
106: - first libiconv, then gettext, then libiconv again,
107: or (on systems supporting shared libraries, excluding AIX)
108: - first gettext, then libiconv, then gettext again.
109: Recall that before building a package for the second time, you need to erase
110: the traces of the first build by running "make distclean".
111:
112: This library installs:
113: - a library 'libiconv.so',
114: - a header file '<iconv.h>'.
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 GNU gnulib, available through
127: the gnulib module 'iconv'.
128:
129:
130: Copyright
131: ---------
132:
133: The libiconv and libcharset _libraries_ and their header files are under LGPL,
134: see file COPYING.LIB.
135:
136: The iconv _program_ and the documentation are under GPL, see file COPYING.
137:
138:
139: Download
140: --------
141:
142: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.16.tar.gz
143:
144: Homepage
145: --------
146:
147: https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
148:
149: Bug reports to
150: --------------
151:
152: <bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org>
153:
154:
155: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
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