What does iconv stand for?

Question

I was trying to figure out why it's called iconv... and I was thinking it means something like:

i CONVersion

I can't figure out what the i stands for though.

Answer 1

More googling answered my own question...

This uses system facilities to convert a character vector between encodings: the ‘i’ stands for ‘internationalization’.

http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/base/html/iconv.html