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  1. libiconv provides an iconv() implementation, for use on systems which
  2. don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.
  3. It can convert from any of supported encodings to any other, through Unicode
  4. conversion.
  5. It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character
  6. cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated
  7. through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is
  8. activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name.
  9. libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character
  10. encodings, but that support lacks from your system.