<html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <title>ICONV</title> </head> <body> <h1 align=center>ICONV</h1> <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> <hr> <!-- Creator : groff version 1.17 --> <!-- CreationDate: Fri May 24 14:48:03 2002 --> <a name="NAME"></a> <h2>NAME</h2> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> iconv - character set conversion</td></table> <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> <pre>iconv [<b>-c</b>] [<b>-s</b>] [<b>-f</b> <i>encoding</i>] [<b>-t</b> <i>encoding</i>] [<i>inputfile</i> ...] iconv <b>-l </b></pre></td></table> <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> The <b>iconv</b> program converts text from one encoding to another encoding. More precisely, it converts <b>from</b> the encoding given for the <b>-f</b> option <b>to</b> the encoding given for the <b>-t</b> option. Either of these encodings defaults to the encoding of the current locale. All the <i>inputfile</i>s are read and converted in turn; if no <i>inputfile</i> is given, the standard input is used. The converted text is printed to standard output.</td></table> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> When option <b>-c</b> is given, characters that cannot be converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a conversion error.</td></table> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> When option <b>-s</b> is given, error messages about invalid or unconvertible characters are omitted, but the actual converted text is unaffected.</td></table> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the libiconv implementation, they are listed in the iconv_open(3) manual page.</td></table> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> The <b>iconv -l</b> command lists the names of the supported encodings, in a system dependent format. For the libiconv implementation, the names are printed in upper case, separated by whitespace, and alias names of an encoding are listed on the same line as the encoding itself.</td></table> <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> <h2>SEE ALSO</h2> <table width="100%" border=0 rules="none" frame="void" cols="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top" align="left"> <td width="10%"></td><td width="90%"> <b>iconv_open</b>(3), <b>locale</b>(7)</td></table> <hr> </body> </html>