convert ANSI to UTF-8

[Lionello Lunesu]

gertje at gertje.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anybody have or know how to write a function to convert an ANSI string to a
> UTF-8 string? I am not using windows, so I cannot rely on the functions in
> std.windows.charset, since they use the MultiByteToWideChar function from the
> windows API...

I suppose you need something like libiconv, 
http://www.gnu.org/software/libiconv/

It has the mappings tables for a lot of encodings. Have never had the 
'pleasure' to work with libiconv myself, but I see it's used in many 
projects.

L.