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37.Dd October 20, 2009
38.Dt ICONV_CANONICALIZE 3
39.Os
40.Sh NAME
41.Nm iconv_canonicalize
42.Nd resolving character encoding names to canonical form
43.Sh LIBRARY
44.Lb libc
45.Sh SYNOPSIS
46.In iconv.h
47.Ft const char *
48.Fn iconv_canonicalize "const char *name"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The
51.Fn iconv_canonicalize
52function resolves the character encoding name specified by the
53.Fa name
54argument to its canonical form.
55.Sh RETURN VALUES
56Upon successful completion
57.Fn iconv_canonicalize ,
58returns the canonical name of the given encoding.
59If the specified name is already a canonical name, the same
60value is returned.
61If the specified name is not an existing character encoding
62name, NULL is returned.
63.Sh SEE ALSO
64.Xr iconv 3
65.Sh STANDARDS
66The
67.Nm
68function is a non-standard extension, which appeared in
69the GNU implementation and was adopted in
70.Fx 9.0
71for compatibility's sake.
72.Sh AUTHORS
73This manual page was written by
74.An Gabor Kovesdan Aq gabor@FreeBSD.org .
75