</variablelist>
</refsect1>
-
+
<refsect1><title>ENCODINGS</title>
<para>
The yaz-iconv command and the API as defined in
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>marc8 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
The <ulink url="&url.marc8;">MARC8</ulink> encoding as defined by
the Library of Congress. Most MARC21/USMARC records usees
this encoding.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>marc8s (encode, decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
Like MARC8 but with conversion prefers non-combined characters
in the Latin-1 plane over combined characters.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>marc8lossy (encode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
Lossy encoding of MARC-8.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>marc8lossless (encode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
Lossless encoding of MARC8.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>utf8 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
The most commonly used UNICODE encoding on the Internet.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>iso8859-1 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
ISO-8859-1, AKA Latin-1.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>iso5426 (decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
ISO 5426. Some MARC records (UNIMARC) uses this encoding.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>iso5428:1984 (encode, decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
ISO 5428:1984.
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>advancegreek (encode, decode)</term>
+ <listitem>
<para>
An encoding for Greek used by some vendors (Advance).
</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>