[Python-Dev] _iconv_codec

Can anybody explain the point of the iconv_codec module to me? I see no docs for it, there's a continued stream of bug reports related to it. I've heard that it's a wrapper around some 3rd party library, but that doesn't help me -- I don't know anything about that 3rd party library module either. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)