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iconv is a computer program and a standardized API used to convert between different character encodings.

Contents 1 iconv API 1.1 Compatibility 2 See also 3 External links

[edit] iconv API

The iconv API is the standard programming interface for converting character strings from one character encoding to another in Unix-like operating systems. Initially appearing on the HP-UX operating system, it was standardized within XPG4 and is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS).

All recent Linux distributions contain a free implementation of iconv() as part of the GNU C Library which is the C library for current Linux systems. To use it, the GNU glibc locales need to be installed, which are provided as a separate package (usually named glibc-locale) normally installed by default.

[edit] Compatibility

Under Windows, the iconv binary (and thus, likely also the API) is provided by the Cygwin and GnuWin32 environments.

Iconv is also one of the libraries supported by PHP[1] (also under Windows using a DLL file), so it is possible to use iconv() from a PHP program.

[edit] See also

• List of Unix programs
• International Components for Unicode

[edit] External links

• extensive iconv() HP-UX manual page with example code
• iconv() OpenGroup Standards page
• Online interface to the iconv program
• giconv a graphical interface to a patched libiconv version that recodes ASMO449+ to UTF-8

Implementations of the iconv API:

• Installing libiconv on Ubuntu Linux
• GNU libiconv, a free iconv implementation, licensed under the LGPL
  • libiconv, compiled as .dll for Windows
• FreeBSD port of iconv
• Citrus, the NetBSD clib implementation, under NetBSD license (assumed)

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