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iconv(1) General Commands Manual iconv(1) NAME iconv - charset conversion utility SYNOPSIS iconv -f from_charset -t to_charset [ -s inputstring | file... ] DESCRIPTION The iconv utility converts the characters or sequences of characters in file(s) (or inputstring if specified with the -s option) from one charset to another and writes the results to standard output. Should no conversion exist for a particular character then it is converted to the underscore '_' in the target charset. The list of supported conversions and the locations of the associated con- version tables are provided in the iconv(3) manual page. OPTIONS The following options are supported: -f from_charset Identifies the input charset. -t to_charset Identifies the output charset. -s inputstring Identifies the character sequence, which is to be converted instead of input files. OPERANDS The following operands are supported: file(s) A list of the input files to be translated. '-' means the standard input. If file is omitted, the standard input is used. EXAMPLES The following example converts the contents of file mail1 from charset iso-8859-5 to utf-8 and stores the results in file mail.local. example% iconv -f iso-8859-5 -t utf-8 mail1 > mail.local ENVIRONMENT See iconv(3) for the description of the ICONV_PATH environment variable that affects the behaviour of iconv. EXIT STATUS The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. 1 An error has occurred. SEE ALSO iconv(3) 10 Sep 2000 iconv(1)
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