* LibIconv-1.9.2 for Windows * ============================== What is it? ----------- LibIconv: convert between character encodings Description ----------- 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 Homepage -------- http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv System ------ - 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 or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher - libgw32c (for developing with LibIconv library) Notes ----- - Bugs and questions on this MS-Windows port: gnuwin32@users.sourceforge.net Package Availability -------------------- - in: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net Sources ------- - libiconv-1.9.2-1-src.zip Compilation ----------- 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.