</variablelist>
</refsect1>
+ <refsect1><title>ENCODINGS</title>
+ <para>
+ The yaz-iconv command and the API as defined in
+ <filename>yaz/yaz-iconv.h</filename> is a wrapper for the
+ library system call iconv. But YAZ' implementation also implements
+ conversions on its own. So regardless of iconv, the following
+ below are always supported by YAZ:
+ </para>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>marc8 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ The <ulink url="&url.marc8;">MARC8</ulink> encoding as defined by
+ the Library of Congress. Most MARC21/USMARC records usees
+ this encoding.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>marc8s (encode, decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ Like MARC8 but with conversion prefers non-combined characters
+ in the Latin-1 plane over combined characters.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>marc8lossy (encode)</term>
+ <para>
+ Lossy encoding of MARC-8.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>marc8lossless (encode)</term>
+ <para>
+ Lossless encoding of MARC8.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>utf8 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ The most commonly used UNICODE encoding on the Internet.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>iso8859-1 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ ISO-8859-1, AKA Latin-1.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>iso5426 (decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ ISO 5426. Some MARC records (UNIMARC) uses this encoding.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>iso5428:1984 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ ISO 5428:1984.
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>advancegreek (encode, decode)</term>
+ <para>
+ An encoding for Greek used by some vendors (Advance).
+ </para>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
<refsect1><title>EXAMPLES</title>
<para>
The following command converts from ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) to