Erlang NIF wrapper for iconv

An Erlang wrapper for the character set conversion utility iconv.

Getting started

Include as a dependency

Using rebar3, add the dependency to your rebar.config file:

{deps, [
    {eiconv, "1.0.0"},
    %% ...
]}.

and run $ rebar3 compile.

Use eiconv module

To convert from utf-8 to ascii:

ToConvert = "123",
{ok, Converted} = eiconv:convert("utf-8", "ascii", ToConvert)),
io:format("Converted '~s' to '~s'~n", [ToConvert, Converted])

eiconv API

Using convert/3

{ok, Converted} = eiconv:convert("utf-8", "ascii", "123"))

Using CD (Conversion Descriptor)

{ok, CD} = eiconv:open("utf8", "ascii"),
{ok, Converted} = eiconv:conv(CD, "123")),
ok = eiconvclose(CD)

iconv API

Using convert/3

Converted = eiconv:convert("utf-8", "ascii", "123"))

(Note it return directly the converted text and not a tuple {ok, Converted})

Authors

Wrapper provided by Maas-Maarten Zeeman and the Zotonic team.

• Maas-Maarten Zeeman
• Arjan Scherpenisse
• Marc Worrell