Patch #670715: Universal Unicode Codec for POSIX iconv.

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diff --git a/Lib/encodings/iconv_codec.py b/Lib/encodings/iconv_codec.py
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+""" Python 'iconv' Codec
+
+
+Written by Hye-Shik Chang (perky@FreeBSD.org).
+
+Copyright(c) Python Software Foundation, All Rights Reserved. NO WARRANTY.
+
+"""
+
+import _iconv_codec
+import codecs
+
+def lookup(enc):
+    class IconvCodec(_iconv_codec.iconvcodec, codecs.Codec):
+        encoding = enc
+
+    try:
+        c = IconvCodec()
+
+        class IconvStreamReader(IconvCodec, codecs.StreamReader):
+            __init__ = codecs.StreamReader.__init__
+        class IconvStreamWriter(IconvCodec, codecs.StreamWriter):
+            __init__ = codecs.StreamWriter.__init__
+
+        return (
+            c.encode, c.decode,
+            IconvStreamReader, IconvStreamWriter
+        )
+    except ValueError:
+        return None
+
+codecs.register(lookup)
+
+# ex: ts=8 sts=4 et