iconv(1) [opendarwin man page]

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NAME

       iconv - character set conversion

SYNOPSIS

       iconv [-c] [-s] [-f encoding] [-t encoding] [inputfile ...]
       iconv -l

DESCRIPTION

       The  iconv  program  converts  text  from one encoding to another encoding.  More precisely, it converts from the encoding given for the -f
       option to the encoding given for the -t option. Either of these encodings defaults to the encoding of the current locale.  All  the  input-
       files  are read and converted in turn; if no inputfile is given, the standard input is used. The converted text is printed to standard out-
       put.

       When option -c is given, characters that cannot be converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a conversion error.

       When option -s is given, error messages about invalid or unconvertible characters are omitted, but the actual converted text is unaffected.

       The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the libiconv implementation, they are listed in the iconv_open(3) manual page.

       The iconv -l 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.

SEE ALSO

       iconv_open(3)

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								 January 13, 2002							  ICONV(1)

ICONV(1)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  ICONV(1)

NAME

       iconv - character set conversion

SYNOPSIS

       iconv [OPTION...] [-f encoding] [-t encoding] [inputfile ...]
       iconv -l

DESCRIPTION

       The  iconv  program  converts  text  from one encoding to another encoding.  More precisely, it converts from the encoding given for the -f
       option to the encoding given for the -t option. Either of these encodings defaults to the encoding of the current locale.  All  the  input-
       files  are read and converted in turn; if no inputfile is given, the standard input is used. The converted text is printed to standard out-
       put.

       The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the libiconv implementation, they are listed in the iconv_open(3) manual page.

       Options controlling the input and output format:

       -f encoding, --from-code=encoding
	      Specifies the encoding of the input.

       -t encoding, --to-code=encoding
	      Specifies the encoding of the output.

       Options controlling conversion problems:

       -c     When this option is given, characters that cannot be converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a conversion error.

       --unicode-subst=formatstring
	      When this option is given, Unicode characters that cannot be represented in the target encoding  are  replaced  with  a  placeholder
	      string  that is constructed from the given formatstring, applied to the Unicode code point. The formatstring must be a format string
	      in the same format as for the printf command or the printf() function, taking either no argument or  exactly  one  unsigned  integer
	      argument.

       --byte-subst=formatstring
	      When  this option is given, bytes in the input that are not valid in the source encoding are replaced with a placeholder string that
	      is constructed from the given formatstring, applied to the byte's value. The formatstring must be a format string in the same format
	      as for the printf command or the printf() function, taking either no argument or exactly one unsigned integer argument.

       --widechar-subst=formatstring
	      When  this  option  is given, wide characters in the input that are not valid in the source encoding are replaced with a placeholder
	      string that is constructed from the given formatstring, applied to the byte's value. The formatstring must be a format string in the
	      same format as for the printf command or the printf() function, taking either no argument or exactly one unsigned integer argument.

       Options controlling error output:

       -s, --silent
	      When  this  option  is given, error messages about invalid or unconvertible characters are omitted, but the actual converted text is
	      unaffected.

       The iconv -l or iconv --list command lists the names of the supported encodings, in a system dependent format. For the libiconv implementa-
       tion,  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.

EXAMPLES

       iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8
	      converts input from the old West-European encoding ISO-8859-1 to Unicode.

       iconv -f KOI8-R --byte-subst="<0x%x>"
		       --unicode-subst="<U+%04X>"
	      converts input from the old Russian encoding KOI8-R to the locale encoding, substituting an angle bracket notation with  hexadecimal
	      numbers for invalid bytes and for valid but unconvertible characters.

       iconv --list
	      lists the supported encodings.

SEE ALSO

       iconv_open(3)

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								 January 22, 2006							  ICONV(1)