X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_YG X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4E8CDD42.109@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:42:10 -0700 From: Walter Barnes User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Blake , cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Alternative to iconv References: <4E8CD47F DOT 9050805 AT gmail DOT com> <4E8CD688 DOT 2080406 AT redhat DOT com> In-Reply-To: <4E8CD688.2080406@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Thanks Eric, I had previously ran the setup utility and searched for iconv and found only the libraries (libiconv and libiconv2). Also, libiconv2 was pre-installed but I was still getting "command not found" when I attempted to run iconv. I went ahead and installed the libiconv package in addition to libiconv2 and it works now... maybe a note in the package description that libiconv2 does not include the executable? Thanks again, Walter On 10/5/2011 3:13 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/05/2011 04:04 PM, Walter Barnes wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a large csv file (1.5GB) that I need to convert from UTF-16 to >> UTF-8 however it appears iconv is not currently included in cygwin. > > Huh? iconv is too part of cygwin: > > $ cygcheck -p iconv\\.exe > Found 3 matches for iconv\.exe > libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-1 GNU character set conversion library and > utilities > libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1-2 GNU character set conversion library and > utilities > libiconv/libiconv-1.14-1 GNU character set conversion library and > utilities > > Maybe you just need to rerun setup.exe and install the libiconv > package, if you don't already have it present on your machine. > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple