Hi,

at
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/documentation/libiconv/iconv_open.3.html
you can see a much more detailed description about iconv_open.

Especially, special coding string like "", "char" and "wchar_t" are documented,
there, but not in the current local iconv_open manpage.
It also tells about other specialties and what some character set string are for.
This should be fixed.

However, note that (at least in sarge) "" and "wchar_t" work, but "char" does not
but instead returns EINVAL. (bug report is on its way).

Hendrik Sattler