Iconv

Synopsis

Iconv is an asterisk application for character conversion.
If you retrieve text from an external data source it might
be necesarry to convert the source characters into a different
character set.

Description

Iconv(varname/destination-charset=text/source-charset)


example: (convert CIDNAME from UTF-8 into ISO-8859-1)


to list the character sets supported by your iconv library type
>iconv -l
on your shell prompt

Return values

Always returns 0.

Version info

• Iconv() is not part of the standard Asterisk distribution

See also

• Iconv Homepage and Download