Hi Frederick, AFAIK, only ICU results in a dependency to an external library. ICU, GNUIconv, and Iconv can be used on any platform if available. All other transcoders are platform-specific which means they can only be used on a certain platform.
Boris -- Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis Tools http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog Open source XML data binding for C++: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd Mobile/embedded validating XML parsing: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde
