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diff --git a/libraries/libiconv/README b/libraries/libiconv/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4888a57679 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/libiconv/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +libiconv (conversion library for text encodings) + +Some programs, like mailers and web browsers, must be able to convert +between a given text encoding and the user's encoding. Other programs +internally store strings in Unicode, to facilitate internal processing, +and need to convert between internal string representation (Unicode) +and external string representation (a traditional encoding) when they +are doing I/O. GNU libiconv is a conversion library for both kinds of +applications. |