Same as the standard UNIX routine iconv(), but may be implemented via libiconv on UNIX flavors that lack a native implementation. GLib provides g_convert() and g_locale_to_utf8() which are likely more convenient than the raw iconv wrappers.
conversion descriptor from g_iconv_open()
bytes to convert
converted output bytes
count of non-reversible conversions, or -1 on error
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Same as the standard UNIX routine iconv(), but may be implemented via libiconv on UNIX flavors that lack a native implementation. GLib provides g_convert() and g_locale_to_utf8() which are likely more convenient than the raw iconv wrappers.