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   </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1><title>ENCODINGS</title>
+  <para>
+   The yaz-iconv command and the API as defined in
+   <filename>yaz/yaz-iconv.h</filename> is a wrapper for the
+   library system call iconv. But YAZ' implementation also implements
+   conversions on its own. So regardless of iconv, the following
+   below are always supported by YAZ:
+  </para>
+  <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>
 
  <refsect1><title>EXAMPLES</title>
   <para>