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.\" https://www.opengroup.org/membership/forums/platform/unix 34.\" 35.Dd November 1, 2009 36.Dt MKESDB 1 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm mkesdb 40.Nd generates conversion catalog for 41.Xr iconv 3 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl md 45.Fl o 46.Ar outfile 47.Ar infile 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Nm 51utility generates conversion catalog for the 52.Xr iconv 3 53library. 54The generated data includes a list of supported encodings 55and their most important characteristics, like the pluggable 56module to use 57.Pp 58The following options are available: 59.Bl -tag -width 0123 60.It Fl d 61Turns on debug mode. 62.It Fl m 63Process directory catalog or alias file. 64If not specified, the input file is treated as an encoding description. 65.It Fl o Ar outfile 66Put generated binary data to 67.Ar outfile . 68.El 69.Sh EXIT STATUS 70.Ex -std mkesdb 71.Sh SEE ALSO 72.Xr iconv 1 , 73.Xr mkcsmapper 1 , 74.Xr iconv 3 75.Sh HISTORY 76.Nm 77first appeared in 78.Nx 2.0 , and made its appearance in 79.Fx 9.0 . 80.Sh AUTHORS 81This manual page was written by 82.An Gabor Kovesdan Aq Mt gabor@FreeBSD.org . 83