1.\" $NetBSD: iconv.1,v 1.3 2008/03/20 11:35:44 tnozaki Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c)2003 Citrus Project, 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.Dd October 22, 2009 28.Dt ICONV 1 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm iconv 32.Nd codeset conversion utility 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl cs 36.Fl f 37.Ar from_name 38.Fl t 39.Ar to_name 40.Op Ar file ... 41.Nm 42.Fl f 43.Ar from_name 44.Op Fl cs 45.Op Fl t Ar to_name 46.Op Ar file ... 47.Nm 48.Fl t 49.Ar to_name 50.Op Fl cs 51.Op Fl f Ar from_name 52.Op Ar file ... 53.Nm 54.Fl l 55.Sh DESCRIPTION 56The 57.Nm 58utility converts the codeset of 59.Ar file 60(or from standard input if no file is specified) from codeset 61.Ar from_name 62to codeset 63.Ar to_name 64and outputs the 65converted text on standard output. 66.Pp 67The following options are available: 68.Bl -tag -width 0123 69.It Fl c 70Prevent output of any invalid characters. 71By default, 72.Nm 73outputs an 74.Dq invalid character 75specified by the 76.Ar to_name 77codeset when it encounts a character which is valid in the 78.Ar from_name 79codeset but does not have a corresponding character in the 80.Ar to_name 81codeset. 82.It Fl f 83Specifies the source codeset name as 84.Ar from_name . 85.It Fl l 86Lists available codeset names. 87Note that not all combinations of 88.Ar from_name 89and 90.Ar to_name 91are valid. 92.It Fl s 93Silent. 94By default, 95.Nm 96outputs the number of 97.Dq invalid characters 98to standard error if they exist. 99This option prevents this behaviour. 100.It Fl t 101Specifies the destination codeset name as 102.Ar to_name . 103.El 104.Sh EXIT STATUS 105.Ex -std iconv 106.Sh EXAMPLES 107Convert 108.Pa file.txt 109from IBM273 to UTF-8 and save the result to 110.Pa converted.txt : 111.Pp 112.Dl iconv -f IBM273 -t UTF-8 file.txt > converted.txt 113.Sh SEE ALSO 114.Xr mkcsmapper 1 , 115.Xr mkesdb 1 , 116.Xr iconv 3 117.Sh STANDARDS 118.Nm 119conform to 120.St -p1003.1-2008 . 121.Sh HISTORY 122.Nm 123first appeared in 124.Nx 2.0 , and made its appearance in 125.Fx 9.0 . 126