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diff --git a/converters/libiconv/DESCR b/converters/libiconv/DESCR index f76a104ce76..aa1ac2ea2ce 100644 --- a/converters/libiconv/DESCR +++ b/converters/libiconv/DESCR @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ - Libiconv is a character set conversion library that provides an iconv() +libiconv is a character set conversion library that provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. - It provides support for many encodings and can convert from any of +It provides support for many encodings and can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion. - It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character +It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name. - libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character +libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character encodings, but that support lacks from your system. |