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ICONV_OPEN(3)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		 ICONV_OPEN(3)

NAME
       iconv_open - allocate descriptor for character set conversion

SYNOPSIS
       #include <iconv.h>

       iconv_t iconv_open (const char* tocode, const char* fromcode);

DESCRIPTION
       The  iconv_open function allocates a conversion descriptor suitable for
       converting byte sequences from character encoding fromcode to character
       encoding tocode.

       The values permitted for fromcode and tocode and the supported combina‐
       tions are system dependent. For the  libiconv  library,	the  following
       encodings are supported, in all combinations.

       European languages
	      ASCII,  ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16}, KOI8-R, KOI8-U,
	      KOI8-RU,	CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257},   CP{850,866,1131},
	      Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania},    Mac{Cyril‐
	      lic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish}, Macintosh

       Semitic languages
	      ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic}

       Japanese
	      EUC-JP,	SHIFT_JIS,    CP932,	ISO-2022-JP,	ISO-2022-JP-2,
	      ISO-2022-JP-1

       Chinese
	      EUC-CN,	HZ,   GBK,   CP936,   GB18030,	EUC-TW,	 BIG5,	CP950,
	      BIG5-HKSCS,   BIG5-HKSCS:2001,   BIG5-HKSCS:1999,	  ISO-2022-CN,
	      ISO-2022-CN-EXT

       Korean
	      EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB

       Armenian
	      ARMSCII-8

       Georgian
	      Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS

       Tajik
	      KOI8-T

       Kazakh
	      PT154, RK1048

       Thai
	      TIS-620, CP874, MacThai

       Laotian
	      MuleLao-1, CP1133

       Vietnamese
	      VISCII, TCVN, CP1258

       Platform specifics
	      HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP

       Full Unicode
	      UTF-8
	      UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE
	      UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE
	      UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE
	      UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE
	      UTF-7
	      C99, JAVA

       Full Unicode, in terms of uint16_t or uint32_t
	      (with machine dependent endianness and alignment)
	      UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL

       Locale dependent, in terms of char or wchar_t
	      (with  machine  dependent	 endianness  and  alignment,  and with
	      semantics depending on the OS and the  current  LC_CTYPE	locale
	      facet)
	      char, wchar_t

       When  configured with the option --enable-extra-encodings, it also pro‐
       vides support for a few extra encodings:

       European languages
	      CP{437,737,775,852,853,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125}

       Semitic languages
	      CP864

       Japanese
	      EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3

       Chinese
	      BIG5-2003 (experimental)

       Turkmen
	      TDS565

       Platform specifics
	      ATARIST, RISCOS-LATIN1

       The empty encoding name "" is equivalent	 to  "char":  it  denotes  the
       locale dependent character encoding.

       When  the string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to tocode, transliteration is
       activated. This means that when a character cannot  be  represented  in
       the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several
       characters that look similar to the original character.

       When the string "//IGNORE" is appended to tocode, characters that  can‐
       not  be	represented  in the target character set will be silently dis‐
       carded.

       The resulting conversion descriptor can be used with iconv  any	number
       of times. It remains valid until deallocated using iconv_close.

       A  conversion  descriptor  contains  a conversion state. After creation
       using iconv_open, the state is in the initial state. Using iconv	 modi‐
       fies the descriptor's conversion state. (This implies that a conversion
       descriptor can not be used  in  multiple	 threads  simultaneously.)  To
       bring the state back to the initial state, use iconv with NULL as inbuf
       argument.

RETURN VALUE
       The iconv_open function returns a freshly allocated conversion descrip‐
       tor. In case of error, it sets errno and returns (iconv_t)(-1).

ERRORS
       The following error can occur, among others:

       EINVAL The  conversion  from fromcode to tocode is not supported by the
	      implementation.

CONFORMING TO
       POSIX:2001

SEE ALSO
       iconv(3) iconvctl(3) iconv_close(3)

GNU			       January 24, 2009			 ICONV_OPEN(3)
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