Dov Grobgeld <dov@imagic.weizmann.ac.il>:
   * Initial author and current maintainer.
   
Owen Tayler <otaylor.@edhat.com>:
   * Contributed very important memory leak and speed patches.

Raphael Finkel <raphael@cs.uky.edu>       
   * Contributed utf8 converters

Pablo Saratxaga <pablo@mandrakesoft.com>  
   * Contributed several arabic charset converters

Manish Singh <yosh@gimp.org> 
   * Contributed patch to make fribidi use libtool

