@node iconv_open
@section @code{iconv_open}
@findex iconv_open

POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/iconv_open.html}

Gnulib module: iconv and iconv_open

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{iconv} or @code{iconv_open}:
@itemize
@item
GNU libiconv is not found if installed in @file{$PREFIX/lib}.
@item
No converter from EUC-JP to UTF-8 is provided on some platforms:
HP-UX 11.
@end itemize

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{iconv_open}:
@itemize
@item
This function recognizes only non-standard aliases for many encodings (not
the IANA registered encoding names) on many platforms:
AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin, mingw, BeOS,
when GNU libiconv is not installed.
@item
The set of supported encodings and conversions is system dependent.
@end itemize