iconv: Library for language/country-dependent character encodings

Description

GNU libiconv is a library that is used to enable different languages, with different characters to be handled properly.

License

  • GPL 3 and LGPL 3. So we can safely link against the library in Sage.

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Type

standard

Dependencies

Version Information

Equivalent System Packages

$ apt-cyg install libiconv-devel
$ brew install libiconv
$ sudo port install libiconv

install the following packages: libiconv

See https://repology.org/project/libiconv/versions

If the system package is installed, ./configure will check if it can be used.