@section @code{iconv_open}
@findex iconv_open
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/iconv_open.html}
+POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv_open.html}
Gnulib module: iconv, iconv_open, iconv_open-utf
@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.
+AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10.
@end itemize
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open-utf}:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
-MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS,
+MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS,
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 10. --- 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