| ICONV(1) Linux Programmer's Manual ICONV(1) |
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| NAME |
| iconv - character set conversion |
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| SYNOPSIS |
| iconv [-c] [-s] [-f encoding] [-t encoding] [inputfile ...] |
| iconv -l |
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| 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 inputfiles |
| are read and converted in turn; if no inputfile is |
| given, the standard input is used. The converted text is |
| printed to standard output. |
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| When option -c is given, characters that cannot be con- |
| verted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a |
| conversion error. |
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| When option -s is given, error messages about invalid or |
| unconvertible characters are omitted, but the actual |
| converted text is unaffected. |
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| The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the |
| libiconv implementation, they are listed in the |
| iconv_open(3) manual page. |
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| The iconv -l command lists the names of the supported |
| encodings, in a system dependent format. For the libi- |
| conv 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. |
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| SEE ALSO |
| iconv_open(3), locale(7) |
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| GNU January 13, 2002 ICONV(1) |
