computing Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computing machinery. It includes the study and experimentation of algorithmic processes, and development of both hardware and software. Computing has scientific, e ...

, uconv is a command-line tool that is bundled with

International Components for Unicode International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization, and software globalization. ICU is widely portable to many operating systems and environm ...

that converts text files between different

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s. It is very similar to the ''

iconv In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, iconv (an abbreviation of internationalization conversion) is a command-line program and a standardized application programming interface (API) used to convert between different character encodings. "It ...

'' command that is part of the Single UNIX Specification which is usually implemented using libiconv. In fact the command line options for transcoding are the same. The command ''uconv'' can also convert to and from various Unicode normalization forms. There is also an alternative implementation written in

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. It was written to supplement support of Japanese encoding in Ruby's XML Parser.Ruby bindings
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