DLL? I am talking about iconv on redhat linux (7.3) that I used... it worked fine converting to UTF-8.
Please reread what I have written. I have talked about my windows experience, where a direct connection is visible between iconv and xsltproc. And then I said I had not found that direct connection on Linux.
Again, there are two possible encodings for hebrew. They both use the exact same character set, and the difference being the letters ordering. Previously iso-8859-8 was used (and is called "Visual Hebrew"). That needed special rendering at the browsers, and eventually they came up using iso-8859-8-i(nverse) (also called "Logical Hebrew") - and this is what we at Israel use everywhere for the past 5+ years.
Again, I successfully made UTF-8 files from hebrew using the following command:
iconv -f windows-1255 -t utf-8 original -o target
From the iso-8859-8-i phpdoc source files?
Goba