libiconv ☆

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Description:
Conversion library

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: System utilities

Tags: library encoding internationalization i18n text-processing

Install: brew install libiconv

About:
GNU libiconv is a conversion library that provides an implementation for character set conversion. It handles the translation between different character encodings, which is essential for processing international text. This library is widely used to ensure software can correctly handle and display text from various global sources.

Key Features:

Supports a vast array of character encodings
Provides a standard iconv API for conversion
Essential for internationalization (i18n) support
Handles conversion for multibyte and wide characters

Use Cases:

Converting text files between different character sets (e.g., UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1)
Building internationalized applications that need to process user input in various languages
Fixing garbled text (mojibake) in legacy systems or data imports

Alternatives:

ICU (International Components for Unicode) – ICU is a more comprehensive library for Unicode/CLDR support, whereas libiconv is focused specifically on character set conversion.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 11, 2025 6:22pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	a2b3d3be
Dec 16, 2024 5:18pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	8b1b4c8e