.. _spkg_iconv:

iconv: Library for language/country-dependent character encodings
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Description
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GNU libiconv is a library that is used to enable different languages,
with different characters to be handled properly.

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


Upstream Contact
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-  http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/
-  Bug reports to bug-gnu-libiconv@gnu.org

Type
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standard


Dependencies
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Version Information
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Equivalent System Packages
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.. tab:: Homebrew

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ brew install libiconv 


.. tab:: MacPorts

   .. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

       $ sudo port install libiconv 


.. tab:: pyodide

   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.

