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iconv_canonicalize(3) [freebsd man page]

ICONV_CANONICALIZE(3)					   BSD Library Functions Manual 				     ICONV_CANONICALIZE(3)

NAME

     iconv_canonicalize -- resolving character encoding names to canonical form

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <iconv.h>

     const char *
     iconv_canonicalize(const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

     The iconv_canonicalize() function resolves the character encoding name specified by the name argument to its canonical form.

RETURN VALUES

     Upon successful completion iconv_canonicalize(), returns the canonical name of the given encoding.  If the specified name is already a canon-
     ical name, the same value is returned.  If the specified name is not an existing character encoding name, NULL is returned.

SEE ALSO

     iconv(3)

STANDARDS

     The iconv_canonicalize function is a non-standard extension, which appeared in the GNU implementation and was adopted in FreeBSD 9.0 for com-
     patibility's sake.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was written by Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD
								 October 20, 2009							       BSD

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MKESDB(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 MKESDB(1)

NAME

     mkesdb -- generates conversion catalog for iconv(3)

SYNOPSIS

     mkesdb [-md] -o outfile infile

DESCRIPTION

     The mkesdb utility generates conversion catalog for the iconv(3) library.	The generated data includes a list of supported encodings and
     their most important characteristics, like the pluggable module to use

     The following options are available:

     -d    Turns on debug mode.

     -m    Process directory catalog or alias file.  If not specified, the input file is treated as an encoding description.

     -o outfile
	   Put generated binary data to outfile.

EXIT STATUS

     The mkesdb utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     iconv(1), mkcsmapper(1), iconv(3)

HISTORY

     mkesdb first appeared in NetBSD 2.0, and made its appearance in FreeBSD 9.0.

AUTHORS

     This manual page was written by Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>.

BSD
								 November 1, 2009							       BSD
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