I was trying to figure out why it's called iconv
... and I was thinking it means something like:
i
CONVersion
I can't figure out what the i
stands for though.
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Sign up to join this communityI was trying to figure out why it's called iconv
... and I was thinking it means something like:
i
CONVersion
I can't figure out what the i
stands for though.
More googling answered my own question...
This uses system facilities to convert a character vector between encodings: the ‘i’ stands for ‘internationalization’.
http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su07/R/html/base/html/iconv.html
iconv(1)
and iconv(3)
originated in R.