character sets

[Matthias Andree]

Looking at man iconv_open as of FreeBSD's iconv-1.8_2 port, it seems the
character set canonicalization issue is solved, see man 3 iconv_open,
man 3 iconv for details. iconv is GNU stuff.

It looks pretty comprehensive:

       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

       Tajik
              KOI8-T

       Thai
              TIS-620, CP874, MacThai

       Laotian
              MuleLao-1, CP1133

       Vietnamese
              VISCII, TCVN, CP1258

      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
              C99, 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 cur-
              rent LC_CTYPE locale facet)
              char, wchar_t

       When configured with the option  --enable-extra-encodings,
       it also provides support for a few extra encodings:

       European languages
              CP{437,737,775,852,853,855,857,858,860,861,863,865,869,1125}

       Semitic languages
              CP864

       Japanese
              EUC-JISX0213, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP-3

       Turkmen
              TDS565

       Platform specifics
              RISCOS-LATIN1


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Matthias Andree