Writing new codecs

Sun Jun 17 16:11:23 EDT 2001

> > Personally, I think on systems that offer iconv, the iconv codec
> > should be the only one you'd ever need - although the UTF-7 converter
> > is supported in gconv only starting with glibc 2.2.
> 
> What is iconv? 

iconv is a standard Unix function for converting encodings, see

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.h.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv_open.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv.html
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/iconv_close.html

for details. gconv is a GNU implementation of this interface.

Regards,
Martin