iconv

Description:

public uint iconv (out string inbuf, out uint inbytes_left, out string outbuf, out uint outbytes_left)

Same as the standard UNIX routine iconv, but may be implemented via libiconv on UNIX flavors that lack a native implementation.

GLib provides convert and locale_to_utf8 which are likely more convenient than the raw iconv wrappers.

inbuf	bytes to convert
inbytes_left	inout parameter, bytes remaining to convert in `inbuf`
outbuf	converted output bytes
outbytes_left	inout parameter, bytes available to fill in `outbuf`
converter	conversion descriptor from open

count of non-reversible conversions, or -1 on error