Initializing help system before first use

General

The XPRNLS library must be initialized with a call to XNLSinit before being used. This initialization function may be called several times and each call must be matched with a call to XNLSfinish after terminating the use of the library.

All encoding conversion routines expect an encoding ID to identify an encoding. This numerical identifier is obtained from an encoding name via XNLSgetencid.

Release resources used by the library.
Get the ID associated with an encoding name.
Get the name corresponding to an encoding ID.
Initialize the library.

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