Questions tagged [iconv]

Many programs rely on libiconv support. Having to compile it on our own means to recompile a lot of things on every update. Why is there no packet or has it a different name?

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.

I try selecting text with mouse from this Slovak document: https://fphil.uniba.sk/fileadmin/fif/katedry_pracoviska/sas/Publikacie/Foneticka_prirucka.pdf . In Browser (Chromium) and in Okular I have weird characters in selection. When I extract text…

In short: How can I display a file to the terminal that is not encoded in UTF-8? Currently, I have a test file encoded in ISO-8859-9 and containing the following 12 characters: ğüşıöçĞÜŞİÖÇ The hex contents of the file is like…