Re: iconv?

> Tatsuo Ishii writes:
> 
> > I have not checked iconv seriously since it's not very portable among
> > our supported platforms.
> 
> Allow me to bring you up to date:
> 
> aix        yes
> beos
> bsdi
> darwin
> freebsd        in ports
> hpux        yes
> irix5        yes
> linux        yes
> netbsd        in ports
> openbsd        in ports
> osf        yes
> qnx4
> sco        yes
> solaris        yes
> sunos4
> unixware    yes
> win

OK. Can people run iconv --list to see what kind of encodings are
supported on each platform?

My iconv (verison 2.1.3 on Linux) shows followings:
 437, 500, 500V1, 850, 851, 852, 855, 857, 860, 861, 862, 863, 864, 865, 866, 869, 874, 904, 1026, 1047, 8859_1,
8859_2,8859_3, 8859_4, 8859_5, 8859_6, 8859_7, 8859_8, 8859_9, 10646-1:1993, 10646-1:1993/UCS4, ANSI_X3.4-1968,
ANSI_X3.4-1986,ANSI_X3.4, ANSI_X3.110-1983, ANSI_X3.110, ARABIC, ARABIC7, ASCII, ASMO-708, ASMO_449, BALTIC, BIG-5,
BIG-FIVE,BIG5, BIGFIVE, BS_4730, CA, CN-BIG5, CN-GB, CN, CP-AR, CP-GR, CP-HU, CP037, CP038, CP273, CP274, CP275, CP278,
CP280,CP281, CP284, CP285, CP290, CP297, CP367, CP420, CP423, CP424, CP437, CP500, CP737, CP775, CP819, CP850, CP851,
CP852,CP855, CP857, CP860, CP861, CP862, CP863, CP864, CP865, CP866, CP868, CP869, CP870, CP871, CP874, CP875, CP880,
CP891,CP903, CP904, CP905, CP918, CP932, CP949, CP1004, CP1026, CP1047, CP1250, CP1251, CP1252, CP1253, CP1254, CP1255,
CP1256,CP1257, CP1258, CP1361, CPIBM861, CSA7-1, CSA7-2, CSASCII, CSA_T500-1983, CSA_T500, CSA_Z243.4-1985-1,
CSA_Z243.4-1985-2,CSDECMCS, CSEBCDICATDE, CSEBCDICATDEA, CSEBCDICCAFR, CSEBCDICDKNO, CSEBCDICDKNOA, CSEBCDICES,
CSEBCDICESA,CSEBCDICESS, CSEBCDICFISE, CSEBCDICFISEA, CSEBCDICFR, CSEBCDICIT, CSEBCDICPT, CSEBCDICUK, CSEBCDICUS,
CSEUCKR,CSEUCPKDFMTJAPANESE, CSGB2312, CSHPROMAN8, CSIBM037, CSIBM038, CSIBM273, CSIBM274, CSIBM275, CSIBM277,
CSIBM278,CSIBM280, CSIBM281, CSIBM284, CSIBM285, CSIBM290, CSIBM297, CSIBM420, CSIBM423, CSIBM424, CSIBM599, CSIBM851,
CSIBM855,CSIBM857, CSIBM860, CSIBM863, CSIBM864, CSIBM865, CSIBM866, CSIBM868, CSIBM869, CSIBM870, CSIBM871, CSIBM880,
CSIBM891,CSIBM903, CSIBM904, CSIBM905, CSIBM918, CSIBM1026, CSISO4UNITEDKINGDOM, CSISO10SWEDISH,
CSISO11SWEDISHFORNAMES,CSISO14JISC6220RO, CSISO15ITALIAN, CSISO16PORTUGESE, CSISO17SPANISH, CSISO18GREEK7OLD,
CSISO19LATINGREEK,CSISO21GERMAN, CSISO25FRENCH, CSISO27LATINGREEK1, CSISO49INIS, CSISO50INIS8, CSISO51INISCYRILLIC,
CSISO58GB1988,CSISO60DANISHNORWEGIAN, CSISO60NORWEGIAN1, CSISO61NORWEGIAN2, CSISO69FRENCH, CSISO84PORTUGUESE2,
CSISO85SPANISH2,CSISO86HUNGARIAN, CSISO88GREEK7, CSISO89ASMO449, CSISO90, CSISO92JISC62991984B, CSISO99NAPLPS,
CSISO103T618BIT,CSISO111ECMACYRILLIC, CSISO121CANADIAN1, CSISO122CANADIAN2, CSISO139CSN369103, CSISO141JUSIB1002,
CSISO143IECP271,CSISO150, CSISO150GREEKCCITT, CSISO151CUBA, CSISO153GOST1976874, CSISO646DANISH, CSISO2022JP,
CSISO2022JP2,CSISO2022KR, CSISO2033, CSISO5427CYRILLIC, CSISO5427CYRILLIC1981, CSISO5428GREEK, CSISO10367BOX,
CSISOLATIN1,CSISOLATIN2, CSISOLATIN3, CSISOLATIN4, CSISOLATIN5, CSISOLATIN6, CSISOLATINARABIC, CSISOLATINCYRILLIC,
CSISOLATINGREEK,CSISOLATINHEBREW, CSKOI8R, CSKSC5636, CSMACINTOSH, CSNATSDANO, CSNATSSEFI, CSN_369103,
CSPC8CODEPAGE437,CSPC775BALTIC, CSPC850MULTILINGUAL, CSPC862LATINHEBREW, CSPCP852, CSSHIFTJIS, CUBA, CWI-2, CWI,
CYRILLIC,DE, DEC-MCS, DEC, DIN_66003, DK, DS2089, DS_2089, E13B, EBCDIC-AT-DE-A, EBCDIC-AT-DE, EBCDIC-BE, EBCDIC-BR,
EBCDIC-CA-FR,EBCDIC-CP-AR1, EBCDIC-CP-AR2, EBCDIC-CP-BE, EBCDIC-CP-CA, EBCDIC-CP-CH, EBCDIC-CP-DK, EBCDIC-CP-ES,
EBCDIC-CP-FI,EBCDIC-CP-FR, EBCDIC-CP-GB, EBCDIC-CP-GR, EBCDIC-CP-HE, EBCDIC-CP-IS, EBCDIC-CP-IT, EBCDIC-CP-NL,
EBCDIC-CP-NO,EBCDIC-CP-ROECE, EBCDIC-CP-SE, EBCDIC-CP-TR, EBCDIC-CP-US, EBCDIC-CP-WT, EBCDIC-CP-YU, EBCDIC-CYRILLIC,
EBCDIC-DK-NO-A,EBCDIC-DK-NO, EBCDIC-ES-A, EBCDIC-ES-S, EBCDIC-ES, EBCDIC-FI-SE-A, EBCDIC-FI-SE, EBCDIC-FR,
EBCDIC-GREEK,EBCDIC-INT, EBCDIC-INT1, EBCDIC-IS-FRISS, EBCDIC-IT, EBCDIC-JP-E, EBCDIC-JP-KANA, EBCDIC-PT, EBCDIC-UK,
EBCDIC-US,ECMA-114, ECMA-118, ECMA-CYRILLIC, ELOT_928, ES, ES2, EUC-CN, EUC-JP, EUC-KR, EUC-TW, EUCCN, EUCJP, EUCKR,
EUCTW,FI, FR, GB, GB2312, GB_1988-80, GOST_19768-74, GOST_19768, GREEK-CCITT, GREEK, GREEK7-OLD, GREEK7, GREEK8,
HEBREW,HP-ROMAN8, HU, IBM037, IBM038, IBM256, IBM273, IBM274, IBM275, IBM277, IBM278, IBM280, IBM281, IBM284, IBM285,
IBM290,IBM297, IBM367, IBM420, IBM423, IBM424, IBM437, IBM500, IBM775, IBM819, IBM850, IBM851, IBM852, IBM855, IBM857,
IBM860,IBM861, IBM862, IBM863, IBM864, IBM865, IBM866, IBM868, IBM869, IBM870, IBM871, IBM874, IBM875, IBM880, IBM891,
IBM903,IBM904, IBM905, IBM918, IBM1004, IBM1026, IBM1047, IEC_P27-1, INIS-8, INIS-CYRILLIC, INIS, ISIRI-3342,
ISO-2022-JP-2,ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-KR, ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, ISO-8859-3, ISO-8859-4, ISO-8859-5, ISO-8859-6,
ISO-8859-7,ISO-8859-8, ISO-8859-9, ISO-8859-10, ISO-8859-11, ISO-8859-13, ISO-8859-14, ISO-8859-15, ISO-10646,
ISO-10646/UCS2,ISO-10646/UCS4, ISO-10646/UTF-?8, ISO-10646/UTF8, ISO-IR-4, ISO-IR-6, ISO-IR-8-1, ISO-IR-9-1, ISO-IR-10,
ISO-IR-11,ISO-IR-14, ISO-IR-15, ISO-IR-16, ISO-IR-17, ISO-IR-18, ISO-IR-19, ISO-IR-21, ISO-IR-25, ISO-IR-27, ISO-IR-37,
ISO-IR-49,ISO-IR-50, ISO-IR-51, ISO-IR-54, ISO-IR-55, ISO-IR-57, ISO-IR-60, ISO-IR-61, ISO-IR-69, ISO-IR-84, ISO-IR-85,
ISO-IR-86,ISO-IR-88, ISO-IR-89, ISO-IR-90, ISO-IR-92, ISO-IR-98, ISO-IR-99, ISO-IR-100, ISO-IR-101, ISO-IR-103,
ISO-IR-109,ISO-IR-110, ISO-IR-111, ISO-IR-121, ISO-IR-122, ISO-IR-126, ISO-IR-127, ISO-IR-138, ISO-IR-139, ISO-IR-141,
ISO-IR-143,ISO-IR-144, ISO-IR-148, ISO-IR-150, ISO-IR-151, ISO-IR-153, ISO-IR-155, ISO-IR-156, ISO-IR-157, ISO-IR-166,
ISO-IR-179,ISO-IR-193, ISO-IR-197, ISO-IR-199, ISO-IR-203, ISO646-CA, ISO646-CA2, ISO646-CN, ISO646-CU, ISO646-DE,
ISO646-DK,ISO646-ES, ISO646-ES2, ISO646-FI, ISO646-FR, ISO646-FR1, ISO646-GB, ISO646-HU, ISO646-IT, ISO646-JP-OCR-B,
ISO646-JP,ISO646-KR, ISO646-NO, ISO646-NO2, ISO646-PT, ISO646-PT2, ISO646-SE, ISO646-SE2, ISO646-US, ISO646-YU,
ISO6937,ISO_646.IRV:1991, ISO_2033-1983, ISO_2033, ISO_5427-EXT, ISO_5427, ISO_5427:1981, ISO_5428, ISO_5428:1980,
ISO_6937-2,ISO_6937-2:1983, ISO_6937, ISO_6937:1992, ISO_8859-1, ISO_8859-1:1987, ISO_8859-2, ISO_8859-2:1987,
ISO_8859-3,ISO_8859-3:1988, ISO_8859-4, ISO_8859-4:1988, ISO_8859-5, ISO_8859-5:1988, ISO_8859-6, ISO_8859-6:1987,
ISO_8859-7,ISO_8859-7:1987, ISO_8859-8, ISO_8859-8:1988, ISO_8859-9, ISO_8859-9:1989, ISO_8859-10, ISO_8859-10:1992,
ISO_8859-14:1998,ISO_8859-15:1998, ISO_9036, ISO_10367-BOX, IT, JIS_C6220-1969-RO, JIS_C6229-1984-B, JOHAB, JP-OCR-B,
JP,JS, JUS_I.B1.002, KOI-7, KOI-8, KOI8-R, KOI8-U, KSC5636, L1, L2, L3, L4, L5, L6, L7, L8, LATIN-GREEK-1, LATIN-GREEK,
LATIN1,LATIN2, LATIN3, LATIN4, LATIN5, LATIN6, LATIN7, LATIN8, MAC-IS, MAC-UK, MAC, MACINTOSH, MS-ANSI, MS-ARAB,
MS-CYRL,MS-EE, MS-GREEK, MS-HEBR, MS-TURK, MSCP949, MSCP1361, MSZ_7795.3, MS_KANJI, NAPLPS, NATS-DANO, NATS-SEFI,
NC_NC00-10,NC_NC00-10:81, NF_Z_62-010, NF_Z_62-010_(1973), NF_Z_62-010_1973, NO, NO2, NS_4551-1, NS_4551-2, OS2LATIN1,
OSF00010001,OSF00010002, OSF00010003, OSF00010004, OSF00010005, OSF00010006, OSF00010007, OSF00010008, OSF00010009,
OSF0001000A,OSF00010020, OSF00010100, OSF00010101, OSF00010102, OSF00010104, OSF00010105, OSF00010106, OSF00030010,
OSF0004000A,OSF0005000A, OSF05010001, OSF100201A4, OSF100201A8, OSF100201B5, OSF100201F4, OSF100203B5, OSF1002011C,
OSF1002011D,OSF1002035D, OSF1002035E, OSF1002035F, OSF1002036B, OSF1002037B, OSF10010001, OSF10020025, OSF10020111,
OSF10020115,OSF10020116, OSF10020118, OSF10020122, OSF10020129, OSF10020352, OSF10020354, OSF10020357, OSF10020359,
OSF10020360,OSF10020364, OSF10020365, OSF10020366, OSF10020367, OSF10020370, OSF10020387, OSF10020388, OSF10020396,
OSF10020402,OSF10020417, PT, PT2, R8, ROMAN8, SE, SE2, SEN_850200_B, SEN_850200_C, SHIFT-JIS, SHIFT_JIS, SJIS,
SS636127,ST_SEV_358-88, T.61-8BIT, T.61, TIS-620, TIS620-0, TIS620.2529-1, TIS620.2533-0, TIS620, UCS-2, UCS-4, UCS2,
UCS4,UHC, UJIS, UK, UNICODE, UNICODEBIG, UNICODELITTLE, US-ASCII, US, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF8, UTF16, WIN-SAMI-2,
WINBALTRIM,WS2, YU