NAME

iconv_canonicalize — resolving character encoding names to canonical form

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include < iconv.h>

const char *
iconv_canonicalize( const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

The iconv_canonicalize() function resolves the character encoding name specified by the name argument to its canonical form.

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion iconv_canonicalize(), returns the canonical name of the given encoding. If the specified name is already a canonical name, the same value is returned. If the specified name is not an existing character encoding name, NULL is returned.

SEE ALSO

iconv(3)

STANDARDS

The iconv_canonicalize function is a non-standard extension, which appeared in the GNU implementation and was adopted in FreeBSD 9 for compatibility's sake.

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>.