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+libiconv (conversion library for text encodings)
+
+Some programs, like mailers and web browsers, must be able to convert
+between a given text encoding and the user's encoding. Other programs
+internally store strings in Unicode, to facilitate internal processing,
+and need to convert between internal string representation (Unicode)
+and external string representation (a traditional encoding) when they
+are doing I/O. GNU libiconv is a conversion library for both kinds of
+applications.