Support for code set conversion, or character set (charset) conversion, is an essential part of the operating system, as most of the applications rely on this capability to function properly.
The current release of Oracle Solaris also includes the International Components for Unicode (ICU), a widely used library and tools for Unicode support, software internationalization and software globalization.
Oracle Solaris 11 includes various tools and libraries for code set conversion. The core code set conversion utility, iconv, is built around the iconv library in Oracle Solaris libc.