| @node iconv_open |
| @section @code{iconv_open} |
| @findex iconv_open |
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| POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html} |
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| Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf |
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| 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 |
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| 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, Solaris 11 2010-11, z/OS. |
| @end itemize |
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| 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. |
| @end itemize |
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| Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: |
| @itemize |
| @item |
| This function is missing on some platforms: |
| Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 8.1, |
| when GNU libiconv is not installed. |
| @item |
| For some encodings A and B, this function cannot convert directly from A to B, |
| although an indirect conversion from A through UTF-8 to B is possible. This |
| occurs on some platforms: Solaris 11 2010-11. Gnulib provides a higher-level |
| facility @code{striconveh} (a wrapper around @code{iconv}) that deals with |
| this problem. |
| @item |
| The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent. |
| @end itemize |