open

Same as the standard UNIX routine iconv_open(), but may be implemented via libiconv on UNIX flavors that lack a native implementation.

GLib provides g_convert() and g_locale_to_utf8() which are likely more convenient than the raw iconv wrappers.

GIConv
open
(
string toCodeset
,)

Parameters

toCodeset string

destination codeset

fromCodeset string

source codeset

Return Value

Type: GIConv

a "conversion descriptor", or (GIConv)-1 if opening the converter failed.