1.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form 26.\" from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- 27.\" Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base 28.\" Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of 29.\" Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the 30.\" event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and 31.\" The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is 32.\" the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at 33.\" http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html. 34.\" 35.Dd October 20, 2009 36.Dt ICONV_CANONICALIZE 3 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm iconv_canonicalize 40.Nd resolving character encoding names to canonical form 41.Sh LIBRARY 42.Lb libc 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.In iconv.h 45.Ft const char * 46.Fn iconv_canonicalize "const char *name" 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48The 49.Fn iconv_canonicalize 50function resolves the character encoding name specified by the 51.Fa name 52argument to its canonical form. 53.Sh RETURN VALUES 54Upon successful completion 55.Fn iconv_canonicalize , 56returns the canonical name of the given encoding. 57If the specified name is already a canonical name, the same 58value is returned. 59If the specified name is not an existing character encoding 60name, NULL is returned. 61.Sh SEE ALSO 62.Xr iconv 3 63.Sh STANDARDS 64The 65.Nm 66function is a non-standard extension, which appeared in 67the GNU implementation and was adopted in 68.Fx 9.0 69for compatibility's sake. 70.Sh AUTHORS 71This manual page was written by 72.An Gabor Kovesdan Aq Mt gabor@FreeBSD.org . 73