c - converting character encoding using a posix c function

Question

Is there a standard posix C function to convert encodings, say from windows-1251 to utf-8 and back?

Answer 1

Yes, it's iconv().

References:

• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv.html
• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv_open.html
• http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/iconv_close.html