ICONV - Charset Conversion Library. Version 1.0
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This distribution contains the library (libiconv.a and .so) for
conversion between various charsets (character encoding schemes)
and the command line utility (iconv).
Syntax of the library functions (iconv_open, iconv, iconv_close)
and the utility is described in the man pages.
Features of the library:
	- small size: the actual conversion methods are located
	 in dynamically loaded shared modules, representing
	 either a character encoding scheme (CES), or a coded
	 character set (CCS); 
	- open module API: adding new modules (both CESs and
	 CCSs) is easy. Although the API has not been documented,
	 it is rather simple to be figured out from the sources;
	- BSD-style copyright;
	- POSIX compliance of iconv_open, iconv and iconv_close
	 functions;
	- support for aliases for charset names via UNIX symbolic
	 links;
	- ISO/IEC 10646 conformance of the internal representation
	 of characters; conversion is always done in two steps:
	 (1) a sequence of zero or more bytes from input buffer
	 coded in the source charset is converted to exactly one
	 valid UCS-4 character and (2) the UCS-4 character is
	 converted to a sequence of zero or more bytes in
	 the target charset to the output buffer;
	- standard sources of CCS tables: all C source files of
	 the tables have been generated by a Perl script from
	 the Unicode and RFC1345 charset mapping tables before
	 being included to the package.
				Konstantin Chuguev
				<Konstantin.Chuguev@dante.org.uk>
				September 2000.