New in 1.17: * The libiconv library is now licensed under the LGPL version 2.1, instead of the LGPL version 2.0. The iconv program continues to be licensed under GPL version 3. * Added converters for many single-byte EBCDIC encodings: IBM-{037,273,277,278,280,282,284,285,297,423,424,425,500,838,870,871,875}, IBM-{880,905,924,1025,1026,1047,1097,1112,1122,1123,1130,1132,1137,1140}, IBM-{1141,1142,1143,1144,1145,1146,1147,1148,1149,1153,1154,1155,1156,1157}, IBM-{1158,1160,1164,1165,1166,4971,12712,16804}. They are available through the configure option '--enable-extra-encodings'. New in 1.16: * The preloadable library has been removed. New in 1.15: * The UTF-8 converter now rejects surrogates and out-of-range code points. * Added ISO-2022-JP-MS converter. * Updated the CP1255 converter to map one more character. * The functions now support strings longer than 2 GB. New in 1.14: * The 'iconv' program now produces its output as soon as it can. It no longer unnecessarily waits for more input. * Updated the GB18030 converter to map 25 characters to code points that have been to Unicode since 2000, rather than to code points in the Private Use Area. * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to BIG5-HKSCS:2004. A new converter BIG5-HKSCS:2008 is added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2008. * Fixed a bug in the conversion to wchar_t. * Fixed a small bug in the CP1258 converter. New in 1.13: * The library and the iconv program now understand platform dependent aliases, for better compatibility with the platform's own iconv_open function. Examples: "646" on Solaris, "iso88591" on HP-UX, "IBM-1252" on AIX. * For stateful encodings, when the input ends with a shift sequence followed by invalid input, the iconv function now increments the input pointer past the shift sequence before returning (size_t)(-1) with errno = EILSEQ. This is also like GNU libc's iconv() behaves. * The library exports a new function iconv_open_into() that stores the conversion descriptor in pre-allocated memory, rather than allocating fresh memory for it. * Added CP1131 converter. New in 1.12: * The iconv program is now licensed under the GPL version 3, instead of the GPL version 2. The libiconv library continues to be licensed under LGPL. * Added RK1048 converter. * On AIX, an existing system libiconv no longer causes setlocale() to fail. * Upgraded EUC-KR, JOHAB to include the Korean postal code sign. New in 1.11: * The iconv program has new options --unicode-subst, --byte-subst, --widechar-subst that allow to specify substitutions for characters that cannot be converted. * The iconv program now understands long options: long option equivalent to --from-code -f --to-code -t --list -l --silent -s * The CP936 converter is now different from the GBK converter: it has changed to include the Euro sign and private area characters. CP936 is no longer an alias of GBK. * Updated GB18030 converter to include all private area characters. * Updated CP950 converter to include the Euro sign and private area characters. * Updated CP949 converter to include private area characters. * Updated the BIG5-HKSCS converter. The old BIG5-HKSCS converter is renamed to BIG5-HKSCS:1999 and updated to Unicode 4. New converters BIG5-HKSCS:2001 and BIG5-HKSCS:2004 are added. BIG5-HKSCS is now an alias for BIG5-HKSCS:2004. * Added a few irreversible mappings to the CP932 converter. * Tidy up the list of symbols exported from libiconv (assumes gcc >= 4.0). New in 1.10: * Added ISO-8859-11 converter. * Updated the ISO-8859-7 converter. * Added ATARIST converter, available through --enable-extra-encodings. * Added BIG5-2003 converter (experimental), available through --enable-extra-encodings. * Updated EUC-TW converter to include the Euro sign. * The preloadable library has been renamed from libiconv_plug.so to preloadable_libiconv.so. * Portability to mingw. New in 1.9: * Many more transliterations. * New configuration option --enable-relocatable. See the INSTALL.generic file for details. New in 1.8: * The iconv program has new options -l, -c, -s. * The iconv program is internationalized. * Added C99 converter. * Added KOI8-T converter. * New configuration option --enable-extra-encodings that enables a bunch of additional encodings; see the README for details. * Updated the ISO-8859-16 converter. * Upgraded BIG5-HKSCS, EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.2. * Upgraded EUC-KR, CP949, JOHAB converters to include the Euro sign. * Changed the ARMSCII-8 converter. * Extended the EUC-JP encoder so that YEN SIGN characters don't cause failures in Shift_JIS to EUC-JP conversion. * The JAVA converter now handles characters outside the Unicode BMP correctly. * Fixed a bug in the CP1255, CP1258, TCVN decoders: The base characters of combining characters could be dropped at the end of the conversion buffer. * Fixed a bug in the transliteration that could lead to excessive memory allocations in libintl when transliteration was needed. * Portability to BSD/OS and SCO 3.2.5. New in 1.7: * Added UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF-32LE converters. * Changed CP1255, CP1258 and TCVN converters to handle combining characters. * Changed EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP, ISO-2022-JP-2, ISO-2022-JP-1 converters to use fullwidth Yen sign instead of halfwidth Yen sign, and fullwidth tilde instead of halfwidth tilde. * Upgraded EUC-TW, ISO-2022-CN, ISO-2022-CN-EXT converters to Unicode 3.1. * Changed the GB18030 converter to not reject unassigned and private-use Unicode characters. * Fixed a bug in the byte order mark treatment of the UCS-4 decoder. * The manual pages are now distributed also in HTML format. New in 1.6: * The iconv program's -f and -t options are now optional. * Many more transliterations. * Added CP862 converter. * Changed the GB18030 converter. * Portability to DOS with DJGPP. New in 1.5: * Added an iconv(1) program. * New locale dependent encodings "char", "wchar_t". * Transliteration is now off by default. Use a //TRANSLIT suffix to enable it. * The JOHAB encoding is documented again. * Changed a few mappings in the CP950 converter. New in 1.4: * Added GB18030, BIG5HKSCS converters. * Portability to OS/2 with emx+gcc. New in 1.3: * Added UCS-2BE, UCS-2LE, UCS-4BE, UCS-4LE converters. * Fixed the definition of EILSEQ on SunOS4. * Fixed a build problem on OSF/1. * Support for building as a shared library on Woe32. New in 1.2: * Added UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE converters. * Changed the UTF-16 encoder. * Fixed the treatment of tab characters in the UTF-7 converter. * Fixed an internal error when output buffer was not large enough. New in 1.1: * Added ISO-8859-16 converter. * Added CP932 converter, a variant of SHIFT_JIS. * Added CP949 converter, a variant of EUC-KR. * Improved the ISO-2022-CN-EXT converter: It now covers the ISO-IR-165 range. * Updated the ISO-8859-8 conversion table. * The JOHAB encoding is deprecated and not documented any more. * Fixed two build problems: 1. "make -n check" failed. 2. When libiconv was already installed, "make" failed. New in 1.0: * Added transliteration facilities. * Added a test suite. * Fixed the iconv(3) manual page and function: the return value was not described correctly. * Fixed a bug in the CP1258 decoder: invalid bytes now yield EILSEQ instead of U+FFFD. * Fixed a bug in the Georgian-PS encoder: accept U+00E6. * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP encoder: reject 0x8E5C and 0x8E7E. * Fixed a bug in the KSC5601 and JOHAB converters: they recognized some Hangul characters at some invalid code positions. * Fixed a bug in the EUC-TW decoder; it was severely broken. * Fixed a bug in the CP950 converter: it recognized a dubious BIG5 range. New in 0.3: * Reduced the size of the tables needed for the JOHAB converter. * Portability to Woe32. New in 0.2: * Added KOI8-RU, CP850, CP866, CP874, CP950, ISO-2022-CN-EXT, GBK and ISO-2022-JP-1 converters. * Added MACINTOSH as an alias for MAC-ROMAN. * Added ASMO-708 as an alias for ISO-8859-6. * Added ELOT_928 as an alias for ISO-8859-7. * Improved the EUC-TW converter: Treat CNS 11643 plane 3. * Improved the ISO-2022-KR and EUC-KR converters: Hangul characters are decomposed into Jamo when needed. * Improved the CP932 converter. * Updated the CP1133, MULELAO-1 and ARMSCII-8 mappings. * The EUC-JP and SHIFT_JIS converters now cover the user-defined range. * Fixed a possible buffer overrun in the JOHAB converter. * Fixed a bug in the UTF-7, ISO-2022-*, HZ decoders: a shift sequence a the end of the input no longer gives an error. * The HZ encoder now always terminates its output in the ASCII state. * Use a perfect hash table for looking up the aliases. New in 0.1: * Portability to Linux/glibc-2.0.x, Linux/libc5, OSF/1, FreeBSD. * Fixed a bug in the EUC-JP decoder. Extended the ISO-2022-JP-2 converter. * Made TIS-620 mapping consistent with glibc-2.1.