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.\" $FreeBSD$ 36.\" 37.Dd November 1, 2009 38.Dt MKESDB 1 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm mkesdb 42.Nd generates conversion catalog for 43.Xr iconv 3 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.Nm 46.Op Fl md 47.Fl o 48.Ar outfile 49.Ar infile 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53utility generates conversion catalog for the 54.Xr iconv 3 55library. 56The generated data includes a list of supported encodings 57and their most important characteristics, like the pluggable 58module to use 59.Pp 60The following options are available: 61.Bl -tag -width 0123 62.It Fl d 63Turns on debug mode. 64.It Fl m 65Process directory catalog or alias file. 66If not specified, the input file is treated as an encoding description. 67.It Fl o Ar outfile 68Put generated binary data to 69.Ar outfile . 70.El 71.Sh EXIT STATUS 72.Ex -std mkesdb 73.Sh SEE ALSO 74.Xr iconv 1 , 75.Xr mkcsmapper 1 , 76.Xr iconv 3 77.Sh HISTORY 78.Nm 79first appeared in 80.Nx 2.0 , and made its appearance in 81.Fx 9.0 . 82.Sh AUTHORS 83This manual page was written by 84.An Gabor Kovesdan Aq Mt gabor@FreeBSD.org . 85