iconv_open
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POSIX specification: http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/iconv_open.html

Gnulib module: iconv and iconv_open

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module iconv or iconv_open:

  * GNU libiconv is not found if installed in $PREFIX/lib.

  * No converter from EUC-JP to UTF-8 is provided on some platforms: HP-UX 11.

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module iconv_open:

  * 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.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

  * This function is missing on some platforms: MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS, when GNU libiconv is not installed.

  * The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent.