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iconv(3HEAD)

Name

iconv.h, iconv - codeset conversion facility

Synopsis

#include <iconv.h> 

Description

The <iconv.h> header defines the following type:

iconv_t

Identifies the conversion from one codeset to another.

The following symbolic constants are defined as possible values for an operation request in query or setting of the iconv code conversion behavior of the current conversion:

• ICONV_GET_CONVERSION_BEHAVIOR
• ICONV_GET_DISCARD_ILSEQ
• ICONV_GET_TRANSLITERATE
• ICONV_IGNORE_NULL
• ICONV_REPLACE_INVALID
• ICONV_SET_CONVERSION_BEHAVIOR
• ICONV_SET_DISCARD_ILSEQ
• ICONV_SET_TRANSLITERATE
• ICONV_TRIVIALP

The following symbolic constants are defined, zero or more of which can be bitwise-inclusively OR'ed together to form the conversion behavior settings for some of the above operation requests:

• ICONV_CONV_ILLEGAL_DISCARD
• ICONV_CONV_ILLEGAL_REPLACE_HEX
• ICONV_CONV_ILLEGAL_RESTORE_HEX
• ICONV_CONV_NON_IDENTICAL_DISCARD
• ICONV_CONV_NON_IDENTICAL_REPLACE_HEX
• ICONV_CONV_NON_IDENTICAL_RESTORE_HEX
• ICONV_CONV_NON_IDENTICAL_TRANSLITERATE

For more information on the above symbolic constants, see iconv(3C), iconvctl(3C), iconv_open(3C), and iconvstr(3C).

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

iconv(3C), iconv_close(3C), iconv_open(3C), iconvctl(3C), iconvstr(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)