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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asked Dec 1 '16 at 23:45
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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
answered Dec 1 '16 at 23:51
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Note that that's from the R package documentation. I doubt
iconv(1)andiconv(3)originated in R. – muru Dec 2 '16 at 1:19 -
@muru When I saw "R" I immediately thought of its use in the context of Android application development :) – Android Dev Dec 2 '16 at 1:36
