| Name : iconv
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| Version : 1.17
| Vendor : obs://build_opensuse_org/home:geewass
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| Release : 20.1
| Date : 2024-09-02 07:11:29
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| Group : Development/Libraries/C and C++
| Source RPM : iconv-1.17-20.1.src.rpm
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| Size : 0.14 MB
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| Packager : (none)
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| Summary : Conversion tool for Unicode and character sets
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Description :
International text is mostly encoded in Unicode. For historical reasons,
however, it is sometimes still encoded using a language or country dependent
character encoding. With the advent of the internet and the frequent exchange of
text across countries - even the viewing of a web page from a foreign country is
a \"text exchange\" in this context -, conversions between these encodings have
become a necessity.
In particular, computers with the Windows operating system still operate in
locale with a traditional (limited) character encoding. Some programs, like
mailers and web browsers, must be able to convert between a given text encoding
and the user\'s encoding. Other programs internally store strings in Unicode, to
facilitate internal processing, and need to convert between internal string
representation (Unicode) and external string representation (a traditional
encoding) when they are doing I/O. GNU libiconv is a conversion library for both
kinds of applications.
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