open

Description:

public static IConv open (string to_codeset, string from_codeset)

Same as the standard UNIX routine iconv_open, but may be implemented via libiconv on UNIX flavors that lack a native implementation.

GLib provides convert and locale_to_utf8 which are likely more convenient than the raw iconv wrappers.

Parameters:

to_codeset

destination codeset
from_codeset

source codeset

Returns:

a "conversion descriptor", or (GIConv)-1 if opening the converter failed.