Character set conversions

[Adam D. Ruppe]

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> Sometimes it may be necessary to translate from another encoding to
> UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32 when getting input from somewhere, and
> sometimes it may be necessary to translate to another encoding from
> UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-16 when outputting somewhere, but it
> certainly isn't the norm.

Translation is all I want. Internally, everything is utf8 strings,
but sometimes the program is fed files in another encoding and it
needs to handle them too.