converters/libiconv 1.19 NetBSD

libiconv is a character set conversion library that provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one, or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode.

It provides support for many encodings and can convert from any of these encodings to any other, through Unicode conversion.

It has also some limited support for transliteration, i.e. when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it can be approximated through one or several similarly looking characters. Transliteration is activated when "//TRANSLIT" is appended to the target encoding name.

libiconv is for you if your application needs to support multiple character encodings, but that support lacks from your system.