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libiconv is a character set conversion library that provides an iconv()
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implementation for use on systems which don't have one, or whose
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implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
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It provides support for many encodings and can convert from any of
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these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion.
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It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character
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cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated
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through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is
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activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name.
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libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character
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encodings, but that support lacks from your system.
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