Editing Iconv (section)

== Implementations ==
Most [[Linux distribution]]s provide an implementation, either from the [[GNU]] Standard C Library (included since version 2.1, February 1999), or the more traditional GNU <code>libiconv</code>, for systems based on other Standard C Libraries.

The <code>iconv</code> function<ref>{{cite web|title=glibc: iconv/iconv.c|url=https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=iconv/iconv.c|access-date=30 November 2016}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> on both is licensed as [[LGPL]], so it is linkable with closed source applications.

Unlike the libraries, the <code>iconv</code> utility is licensed under [[GPL]] in both implementations.<ref>{{cite web|title=glibc: iconv/iconv_prog.c|url=https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=iconv/iconv_prog.c|access-date=30 November 2016}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
The GNU libiconv implementation is portable, and can be used on various UNIX-like and non-UNIX systems. Version 0.3 dates from December 1999.

The [[uconv]] utility from [[International Components for Unicode]] provides an iconv-compatible command-line syntax for transcoding.

Most BSD systems use NetBSD's implementation, which first appeared in December 2004.

The [[musl]] C library implements the <code>iconv</code> function with support for all encodings specified by the [[WHATWG]] Encoding Standard.

=== Support ===
Currently, over a hundred different character encodings are supported in the GNU variant.<ref name="gnulibiconv"/>

=== Ports ===
Under [[Microsoft Windows]], the iconv library and the utility is provided by GNU's libiconv found in [[Cygwin]]<ref name="cygwin-libiconv-search">{{cite web|title=Cygwin Package Search: libiconv |url=https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=libiconv |access-date=30 November 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20161130001530/https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=libiconv |archive-date=30 November 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><!-- Search result pages are perishable. --> and [[GnuWin32]]<ref name="gnuwin32-libiconv">{{cite web|url=http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libiconv.htm|title=LibIconv for Windows|website=gnuwin32.sourceforge.net|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> environments; there is also a "purely Win32" implementation called "win-iconv" that uses Windows' built-in routines for conversion.<ref name="win-iconv">{{cite web|title=win32-iconv|url=https://github.com/win-iconv/win-iconv|website=GitHub|access-date=30 November 2016}}</ref> The iconv function is also available for many programming languages.

The {{Mono|iconv}} command has also been ported to the [[IBM i]] operating system.<ref>{{cite web |title=IBM System i Version 7.2 Programming Qshell |language=en |author=IBM |website=[[IBM]] |author-link=IBM |url=https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_74/rzahz/rzahzpdf.pdf?view=kc |access-date=2020-09-05 }}</ref>