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diff --git a/converters/libiconv/pkg/DESCR b/converters/libiconv/pkg/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f76a104ce76 --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/libiconv/pkg/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ + 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 +these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion. + + 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 +encodings, but that support lacks from your system. |