Software Internationalization Guide

POSIX and XPG Internationalization Model

Software Internationalization Guide—526225-002

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Code-Set Conversion Example

This is an example of code-set conversion:

/* Example of code-set conversion*/

#include <stdio.h>

#include <iconv.h>

main()

{

iconv_t cd;

char **inbuf, **outbuf;

size_t *inbytesleft, *outbytesleft;

size_t result;

/* Allocate memory for inbuf, outbuf, inbytesleft and outbytesleft */

cd = iconv_open ("IBM-850", "ISO8859-1");

/* Before calling iconv(), inbuf contains a string of characters for

conversion from one code set to another; inbytesleft indicates the number of

bytes in inbuf; outbytesleft indicates the number of available bytes in

outbuf. */

result = iconv(cd, inbuf, inbytesleft, outbuf, outbytesleft);

/* After calling iconv(), outbuf contains the converted data; inbuf pointer,

outbuf pointer, inbytesleft and outbytesleft are updated */

iconv_close(cd);

}