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iconv(3C) iconv(3C)

Or compile with CCOPTS and LDOPTS:

export CCOPTS="-Wl,-a,archive

options -Wl,-E -l:libdld.sl"

export LDOPTS="

options -E +n -l:libdld.sl"

cc -o

outﬁle source

The option -Wl,-a,archive

is positionally dependent and should occur at the beginning of the compile

line. For optimum compatibility in future releases, you should avoid using archive libc with other shared

libraries except for libdld.sl as needed above.

There is a corner-case situation for multi-byte characters that is not correctly handled by

iconv(). If the

last character in the ﬁle being converted is an invalid multi-byte character,

iconv() returns [EINVAL]

instead of [EILSEQ]. The application can get around this by checking whether EOF is reached or if this is

the last buffer being converted. In this case, [EINVAL] should be treated as [EILSEQ].

AUTHOR

iconv() was developed by HP.

FILES

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/system.config.iconv

System iconv conﬁguration ﬁle containing codeset

names supported by the operating system.

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv

User customizable iconv conﬁguration ﬁle containing

additional codeset names.

iconv_open() searches the codeset names ﬁrst in

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/system.config.iconv

and then in

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv

to check

if the requested conversion is supported. If so,

iconv_open() determines which table and/or

method to use for the conversion.

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/tables

Directory containing tables used for conversion.

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/methods

Directory containing methods used for conversion.