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28.Dd October 22, 2009
29.Dt ICONV 1
30.Os
31.Sh NAME
32.Nm iconv
33.Nd codeset conversion utility
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Nm
36.Op Fl cs
37.Fl f
38.Ar from_name
39.Fl t
40.Ar to_name
41.Op Ar file ...
42.Nm
43.Fl f
44.Ar from_name
45.Op Fl cs
46.Op Fl t Ar to_name
47.Op Ar file ...
48.Nm
49.Fl t
50.Ar to_name
51.Op Fl cs
52.Op Fl f Ar from_name
53.Op Ar file ...
54.Nm
55.Fl l
56.Sh DESCRIPTION
57The
58.Nm
59utility converts the codeset of
60.Ar file
61(or from standard input if no file is specified) from codeset
62.Ar from_name
63to codeset
64.Ar to_name
65and outputs the
66converted text on standard output.
67.Pp
68The following options are available:
69.Bl -tag -width 0123
70.It Fl c
71Prevent output of any invalid characters.
72By default,
73.Nm
74outputs an
75.Dq invalid character
76specified by the
77.Ar to_name
78codeset when it encounts a character which is valid in the
79.Ar from_name
80codeset but does not have a corresponding character in the
81.Ar to_name
82codeset.
83.It Fl f
84Specifies the source codeset name as
85.Ar from_name .
86.It Fl l
87Lists available codeset names.
88Note that not all combinations of
89.Ar from_name
90and
91.Ar to_name
92are valid.
93.It Fl s
94Silent.
95By default,
96.Nm
97outputs the number of
98.Dq invalid characters
99to standard error if they exist.
100This option prevents this behaviour.
101.It Fl t
102Specifies the destination codeset name as
103.Ar to_name .
104.El
105.Sh EXIT STATUS
106.Ex -std iconv
107.Sh EXAMPLES
108Convert
109.Pa file.txt
110from IBM273 to UTF-8 and save the result to
111.Pa converted.txt :
112.Pp
113.Dl iconv -f IBM273 -t UTF-8 file.txt > converted.txt
114.Sh SEE ALSO
115.Xr mkcsmapper 1 ,
116.Xr mkesdb 1 ,
117.Xr iconv 3
118.Sh STANDARDS
119.Nm
120conform to
121.St -p1003.1-2008 .
122.Sh HISTORY
123.Nm
124first appeared in
125.Nx 2.0 , and made its appearance in
126.Fx 9.0 .
127