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• @node iconv
  @section @code{iconv}
  @findex iconv
  
  POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html}
  
  Gnulib module: iconv
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}.
  @item
  Failures are not distinguishable from successful returns on some platforms:
  AIX 5.1.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function is missing on some platforms:
  MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS,
  when GNU libiconv is not installed.
  @item
  This function was not correctly implemented in glibc versions before 2.2.
  @item
  When @code{iconv} encounters an input character that is valid but that can
  not be converted to the output character set, glibc's and GNU libiconv's
  @code{iconv} stop the conversion.  Some other implementations put an
  implementation-defined character into the output buffer.  ---
  Gnulib provides higher-level facilities @code{striconv} and @code{striconveh}
  (wrappers around @code{iconv}) that deal with conversion errors in a platform
  independent way.
  @end itemize
  

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