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.

Upstream Contact#

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.