title: Steps to enable and use iconv on Windows with Indy 10.5.9
body: <p>For cross-platform development with Internet Direct (Indy), it can be useful to enable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconv" rel="nofollow">iconv</a> support instead of the OS-specific Windows character conversions.</p>
  
  <p>This would allow to continue developing and testing code on Windows in the Delphi IDE, but still be able to find conversion related issues before compiling the code on a different platform.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Indy 10 already includes code to use the iconv API on Linux and Windows.</strong> </p>
  
  <p>On Windows, some preparation is required:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>copy the iconv API DLL to the app folder or the search path</li>
  <li>define the <strong>use_iconv</strong> conditional symbol</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>The intention of this question is to help getting started with iconv on the Windows platform. </p>