OFF-TOPIC: Converting latin-1 to unicode

[Gustavo Joćo Alves Marques Carneiro <ee96090 fe up pt>]

  I need to convert a string in whatever encoding used by the system (I
use latin-1) to unicode. I need it to render strings with freetype -- the
font I'm using uses unicode encoding. 

  I looked at iconv, but it seems to convert only between different
multibyte encodings. I also looked at libunicode, but couldn't find the
function I need.

  Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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Gustavo J.A.M. Carneiro
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