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GNU libiconv 1.18 released
posted by haible, Sun 15 Dec 2024 01:35:15 PM UTC

The GNU libiconv package provides the basis for character set conversion of text, for systems that don't use glibc.
It contains an implementation of the iconv() POSIX:2024 API and of the 'iconv' program, in a way that is mostly glibc compatible. [...]

libiconv 1.17 released
posted by haible, Sun 15 May 2022 03:31:26 PM UTC

GNU libiconv 1.17 is released.

New in this release:

The libiconv library is now licensed under the LGPL version 2.1, instead of the LGPL version 2.0. The iconv program continues to be licensed under GPL version 3.
Added converters for many single-byte EBCDIC encodings:

[...]

libiconv 1.15 released
posted by haible, Fri 03 Feb 2017 12:35:29 AM UTC

GNU libiconv 1.15 is released.

New in this release:

The UTF-8 converter now rejects surrogates and out-of-range code points.
Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter.
Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character.
The functions now support strings longer than 2 GB.

Transition from CVS to Git
posted by haible, Sun 21 Jun 2009 11:47:33 AM UTC

The source is now maintained in a Git repository. See https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=libiconv for details. The CVS repository is now out-of-date.