Original author(s) | Hewlett-Packard |
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Developer(s) | Various open-source and commercial developers |
Repository | https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/libiconv.git |
Operating system | Unix, Unix-like, Microsoft Windows, IBM i |
Platform | Cross-platform |
Type | Command |
License | libiconv: LGPL iconv: GPL win-iconv: Public domain[1] |
In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, iconv (an abbreviation of internationalization conversion)[2] is a command-line program[3] and a standardized application programming interface (API)[4] used to convert between different character encodings. "It can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion."[5]