5 POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/iconv.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}.
14 Failures are not distinguishable from successful returns on some platforms:
17 A buffer overrun can occur on some platforms:
21 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
24 This function is missing on some platforms:
25 MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, IRIX 5.3, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS,
26 when GNU libiconv is not installed.
28 This function was not correctly implemented in glibc versions before 2.2.
30 When @code{iconv} encounters an input character that is valid but that
31 cannot be converted to the output character set, glibc's and GNU libiconv's
32 @code{iconv} stop the conversion. Some other implementations put an
33 implementation-defined character into the output buffer. ---
34 Gnulib provides higher-level facilities @code{striconv} and @code{striconveh}
35 (wrappers around @code{iconv}) that deal with conversion errors in a platform
38 This function returns a positive return value, instead of zero, when
39 converting from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 on HP-UX 11.