Утилита iconv для windows

1: shared means that the programs make use of DLL. The setup size is small, but all the executables needs to stay together with the shipped DLL libraries.
2: static means that the programs do not use DLL. The setup size is much bigger, but all the executables may be moved around as you like, no DLL-dependencies.

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Since gettext v0.22.5 / iconv v1.17, the built DLLs and executables are signed.

Free code signing is provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

The source code of gettext and iconv is created and maintained by the Free Software Foundation.

This gettext-iconv-windows project only compiles gettext and iconv for Windows, and is maintained by Michele Locati.

Do you want to see what’s behind the scenes? See the source code!

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This is a short memo about installing iconv on Windows host (specifically: Windows 7 SP1 x64). Iconv is a handy Unix/Linux tool that is used for conversion between different character encodings.
Unfortunately, I’m not always in a position to use my favorite Linux distro at job, so here is a short recipe on how to setup iconv port for Win32.

1. Download libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip from Sourgeforge.net
2. Download support library gettext-runtime-0.13.1.bin.woe32.zip from here. Make sure that you download exactly the version 0.13.1 and NOT newer, due to some compatibility issues!
3. Create some directory, such as C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv
4. Unzip the content of \bin from both zip files and save the content together in above directory.

The final content of iconv directory should look like this:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>dir
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is A88E-6A42

 Directory of C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv

11.10.2012  13:33    <DIR>          .
11.10.2012  13:33    <DIR>          ..
14.01.2004  21:59            28.672 asprintf.dll
14.01.2004  01:56            24.576 charset.dll
14.01.2004  21:59            20.480 envsubst.exe
14.01.2004  21:59            20.480 gettext.exe
07.10.2003  21:17             2.715 gettext.sh
14.01.2004  01:56           892.928 iconv.dll
14.01.2004  01:56            16.384 iconv.exe
14.01.2004  21:59            45.056 intl.dll
14.01.2004  21:59            20.480 ngettext.exe
              11 File(s)      1.071.780 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  57.396.654.080 bytes free

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>

Usage:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>iconv --help
Usage: iconv [--binary] [-c] [-s] [-f fromcode] [-t tocode] [file ...]
or:    iconv -l

List of supported code pages:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>iconv -l

Example of converting file from utf-8 to cp1250 encoding:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1250 utf-8.txt > cp1250.txt

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

iconv

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]

Initially appearing on the HP-UX operating system,^[6]iconv() as well as the utility was standardized within XPG4 and is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS).

Most Linux distributions provide an implementation, either from the GNU Standard C Library (included since version 2.1, February 1999), or the more traditional GNU libiconv, for systems based on other Standard C Libraries.

The iconv function^[7] on both is licensed as LGPL, so it is linkable with closed source applications.

Unlike the libraries, the iconv utility is licensed under GPL in both implementations.^[8]
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 iconv function with support for all encodings specified by the WHATWG Encoding Standard.

Currently, over a hundred different character encodings are supported in the GNU variant.^[5]

Under Microsoft Windows, the iconv library and the utility is provided by GNU’s libiconv found in Cygwin^[9] and GnuWin32^[10] environments; there is also a «purely Win32» implementation called «win-iconv» that uses Windows’ built-in routines for conversion.^[11] The iconv function is also available for many programming languages.

The iconv command has also been ported to the IBM i operating system.^[12]

stdin can be converted from ISO-8859-1 to current locale and output to stdout using:^[13]

An input file infile can be converted from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 and output to output file outfile using:

iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 <infile> -o <outfile>

• uconv
• luit
• List of Unix commands
• International Components for Unicode

• iconv() OpenGroup Standards page
• GNU libiconv, code
• win_iconv