New in 1.18:
- Many more transliterations.
- GB18030 is now an alias for GB18030:2005. A new converter for GB18030:2022
is added. Since this encoding merely cleans up a few private-use-area
mappings, you can continue to use the GB18030 converter, for backward
compatibility. Its Unicode to GB18030 conversion direction has been
enhanced, to help transitioning away from PUA code points. - When converting from/to an EBCDIC encoding, a non-standard way of
converting newlines can be requested- at the C level, by calling iconvctl with argument ICONV_SET_FROM_SURFACE
or ICONV_SET_TO_SURFACE, or - from the iconv program, by setting the environment variable
ICONV_EBCDIC_ZOS_UNIX to a non-empty value.
- at the C level, by calling iconvctl with argument ICONV_SET_FROM_SURFACE
- Special support for z/OS: The iconv program adds a charset metadata tag to
its output file. (Contributed by Mike Fulton.)