Character encoding conversion using posix c function

Question

Is there a standard posix C function for converting encodings, say, from windows-1251 to utf-8 and vice versa?

Answer 1

Yes it is iconv().

Literature:

• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html
• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv_open.html
• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv_close.html