Editing Iconv (section)

{{short description|Standard UNIX utility}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Lowercase|title=iconv}}
{{Infobox software
| name = iconv
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| author = [[Hewlett-Packard]]
| developer = Various [[open-source software|open-source]] and [[commercial software|commercial]] developers
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| repo = https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/libiconv.git
| operating system = [[Unix]], [[Unix-like]], [[Microsoft Windows]], [[IBM i]]
| platform = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = [[Command (computing)|Command]]
| license = libiconv: [[LGPL]]<br/>iconv: [[GPL]]<br />win-iconv: [[Public domain]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv/blob/master/readme.txt |title = win-iconv/readme.txt at master · win-iconv/win-iconv · GitHub| website=[[GitHub]] }}</ref>
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In [[Unix]] and [[Unix-like]] operating systems, '''iconv''' (an abbreviation of [[Internationalization and localization|internationalization]] conversion)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/base/html/iconv.html|title=R: Convert Character Vector between Encodings|website=astrostatistics.psu.edu|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> is a command-line [[computer program|program]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/iconv.html|title=iconv|website=pubs.opengroup.org|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> and a standardized [[application programming interface]] (API)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html|title=iconv|website=www.opengroup.org|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> used to convert between different [[character encoding]]s. "It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion."<ref name="gnulibiconv">{{cite web|url=https://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/|title=libiconv - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)|website=www.gnu.org|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref>