| * LibIconv-1.9.2 for Windows * |
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| What is it? |
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| LibIconv: convert between character encodings |
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| Description |
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| LibIconv converts from one character encoding to another through Unicode |
| conversion (see Web page for full list of supported encodings). It has |
| also limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character cannot be |
| represented in the target character set, it is approximated through one |
| or several similar looking characters. It is useful if your application |
| needs to support multiple character encodings, but that support lacks from |
| your system. |
| |
| - Libiconv-1 is in Libiconv-1.7 |
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| Homepage |
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| http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv |
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| System |
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| - MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP with msvcrt.dll |
| - if msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from |
| Microsoft <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259403"> |
| or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher |
| <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie>- libgw32c <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm> (for developing with LibIconv library) |
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| Notes |
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| - Bugs and questions on this MS-Windows port: gnuwin32@users.sourceforge.net |
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| Package Availability |
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| - in: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net |
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| Sources |
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| - libiconv-1.9.2-1-src.zip |
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| Compilation |
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| The package has been compiled with GNU auto-tools, GNU make, and Mingw |
| (GCC for MS-Windows). Any differences from the original sources are given |
| in libiconv-1.9.2-1-GnuWin32.diffs in libiconv-1.9.2-1-src.zip. Libraries needed |
| for compilation can be found at the lines starting with 'LIBS = ' in the |
| Makefiles. Usually, these are standard libraries provided with Mingw, or |
| libraries from the package itself; 'gw32c' refers to the libgw32c package, |
| which provides MS-Windows substitutes or stubs for functions normally found in |
| Unix. For more information, see: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html |
| and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm. |