| iconv_open - allocate descriptor for character set conversion |
#include <iconv.h> iconv_t iconv_open (const char* tocode, const char* fromcode); |
| The iconv_open function allocates a conversion descriptor suitable for converting byte sequences from character encoding fromcode to character encoding tocode. |
| The values permitted for fromcode and tocode and the supported combinations are system dependent. For the libiconv library, the following encodings are supported, in all combinations. |
| European languages |
| ASCII, ISO-8859-{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15,16}, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KOI8-RU, CP{1250,1251,1252,1253,1254,1257}, CP{850,866}, Mac{Roman,CentralEurope,Iceland,Croatian,Romania}, Mac{Cyrillic,Ukraine,Greek,Turkish}, Macintosh |
| Semitic languages |
| ISO-8859-{6,8}, CP{1255,1256}, CP862, Mac{Hebrew,Arabic} |
| Japanese |
| EUC-JP, SHIFT-JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1 |
| Chinese |
| EUC-CN, HZ, GBK, GB18030, EUC-TW, BIG5, CP950, BIG5-HKSCS, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT |
| Korean |
| EUC-KR, CP949, ISO-2022-KR, JOHAB |
| Armenian |
| ARMSCII-8 |
| Georgian |
| Georgian-Academy, Georgian-PS |
| Thai |
| TIS-620, CP874, MacThai |
| Laotian |
| MuleLao-1, CP1133 |
| Vietnamese |
| VISCII, TCVN, CP1258 |
| Platform specifics |
| HP-ROMAN8, NEXTSTEP |
| Full Unicode |
UTF-8 UCS-2, UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE UCS-4, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF-16LE UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE UTF-7 JAVA |
| Full Unicode, in terms of uint16_t or uint32_t |
| (with machine dependent endianness and alignment) UCS-2-INTERNAL, UCS-4-INTERNAL |
| Locale dependent, in terms of char or wchar_t |
| (with machine dependent endianness and alignment, and with semantics depending on the OS and the current LC_CTYPE locale facet) char, wchar_t |
| When the string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to tocode, transliteration is activated. This means that when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters. |
| The resulting conversion descriptor can be used with iconv any number of times. It remains valid until deallocated using iconv_close. |
| A conversion descriptor contains a conversion state. After creation using iconv_open, the state is in the initial state. Using iconv modifies the descriptor's conversion state. (This implies that a conversion descriptor can not be used in multiple threads simultaneously.) To bring the state back to the initial state, use iconv with NULL as inbuf argument. |
| The iconv_open function returns a freshly allocated conversion descriptor. In case of error, it sets errno and returns (iconv_t)(-1). |
| The following error can occur, among others: |
| EINVAL |
| The conversion from fromcode to tocode is not supported by the implementation. |
| Unix98 |
| iconv(3), iconv_close(3) |