移植到windows下的iconv

This is a short memo about installing iconv on Windows host (specifically: Windows 7 SP1 x64). Iconv is a handy Unix/Linux tool that is used for conversion between different character encodings.
Unfortunately, I’m not always in a position to use my favorite Linux distro at job, so here is a short recipe on how to setup iconv port for Win32.

1. Download libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip from Sourgeforge.net
2. Download support library gettext-runtime-0.13.1.bin.woe32.zip from here. Make sure that you download exactly the version 0.13.1 and NOT newer, due to some compatibility issues!
3. Create some directory, such as C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv
4. Unzip the content of \bin from both zip files and save the content together in above directory.

The final content of iconv directory should look like this:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>dir  Volume in drive C has no label.  Volume Serial Number is A88E-6A42    Directory of C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv   11.10.2012  13:33    <DIR>          . 11.10.2012  13:33    <DIR>          .. 14.01.2004  21:59            28.672 asprintf.dll 14.01.2004  01:56            24.576 charset.dll 14.01.2004  21:59            20.480 envsubst.exe 14.01.2004  21:59            20.480 gettext.exe 07.10.2003  21:17             2.715 gettext.sh 14.01.2004  01:56           892.928 iconv.dll 14.01.2004  01:56            16.384 iconv.exe 14.01.2004  21:59            45.056 intl.dll 14.01.2004  21:59            20.480 ngettext.exe               11 File(s)      1.071.780 bytes                2 Dir(s)  57.396.654.080 bytes free   C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>

Usage:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>iconv --help Usage: iconv [--binary] [-c] [-s] [-f fromcode] [-t tocode] [file ...] or:    iconv -l

List of supported code pages:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>iconv -l

Example of converting file from utf-8 to cp1250 encoding:

C:\UNIXUTIL\iconv>iconv -f utf-8 -t cp1250 utf-8.txt > cp1250.txt