code page conversion

["Boncek, John" <jmb Hunter COM>]

> I have a large collection of strings encoded in various MS-Windows code
> pages.  I need to convert these to UTF-8 for display in a Linux port of
> an existing application.  What is the best way to do this?  Apparently
> the g_convert function can do it, but you have to specify the code page
> (character set) for both input and output as character strings and I
> can't find out anywhere how to specify those character strings.  Thanks
> for your attention.
>
> John Boncek