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.
Note that the behaviour of iconv() for characters which are valid in the
input character set, but which have no representation in the output character
set, is implementation defined. This function may return success (with a
positive number of non-reversible conversions as replacement characters were
used), or it may return -1 and set an error such as %EILSEQ, in such a
situation.
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.
Note that the behaviour of iconv() for characters which are valid in the input character set, but which have no representation in the output character set, is implementation defined. This function may return success (with a positive number of non-reversible conversions as replacement characters were used), or it may return -1 and set an error such as %EILSEQ, in such a situation.