Hi Chong, > The iconv program is provided with the glibc-common > package. It uses the > glibc implementation of the iconv_* functions > (gconv) and is part of glibc. $ which iconv /usr/bin/iconv I found it tks > > What is it for? > > From rom the iconv(1) manpage: > "iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one > encoding to another" > > I normally use it to convert Big5/GB encoded > plaintext documents (eg. > HTML, XML, PO, scripts) to UTF-8. Noted with tks > > Is it from Chinese to > > Japanese/Arabic/Indonesian/etc. and vice versa > > You would need a language translation program to > 'convert' Chinese to > the languages you listed. > > The iconv_* functions (therefore iconv), on the > other hand, were > designed to deal with conversion of one character > encoding to another. Noted. > With gconv (and I suspect any other iconv > implementation), the specific > conversions are implemented in gconv via modules. > From what I > understand, it is possible to write a module that > does language > translation as part of the conversion process, but I > don't believe it's > been done. $ which gconv /usr/bin/which: no gconv in (/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/satimis/bin) Neither can I find it on Internet # yum search gconv Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) .... .... No packages found Looking in installed packages for a providing package No packages found Please advise which package generating 'gconv' Tks B.R. Stephen