kc3-lang/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/iconv_open.texi

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• @node iconv_open
  @section @code{iconv_open}
  @findex iconv_open
  
  POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html}
  
  Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf
  
  Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{iconv} or @code{iconv_open}:
  @itemize
  @item
  GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}.
  @item
  No converter from EUC-JP to UTF-8 is provided on some platforms:
  HP-UX 11.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open}:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function recognizes only non-standard aliases for many encodings (not
  the IANA registered encoding names) on many platforms:
  AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open-utf}:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function does not support the encodings UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE, UTF-32BE,
  UTF-32LE on many platforms:
  AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8.
  @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
  The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent.
  @end itemize
  

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