MAN-RECODE
Section: Manual pager utils (1)
Updated: 2020-06-22
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NAME
man-recode - convert manual pages to another encoding
SYNOPSIS
man-recode
-t
to-code
{
--suffix=suffix/|
--in-place}
[
-dqhV]
[
filename]
DESCRIPTION
man-recode
converts multiple manual pages from one encoding to another, guessing the
appropriate input encoding for each one.
It is useful when permanently recoding pages written in legacy character
sets, or in build systems that need to recode a set of pages to a single
common encoding (usually UTF-8) for installation.
When converting many manual pages, this program is much faster than running
man --recode
or
manconv
on each page.
If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of a manual page, then
that declaration is used as the input encoding for that page.
Failing that, the input encoding is guessed based on the file name.
Encoding declarations have the following form:
-
'\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
or (if manual page preprocessors are also to be declared):
-
'\" t -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-
OPTIONS
- -t encoding/, --to-code=encoding
-
Convert manual pages to
encoding.
- --suffix=suffix
-
Form each output file name by appending
suffix
to the input file name, after removing any compression extension.
- --in-place
-
Overwrite each input file with the output, after removing any compression
extension.
- -q, --quiet
-
Do not issue error messages when the page cannot be converted.
- -d, --debug
-
Print debugging information.
- -h, --help
-
Print a help message and exit.
- -V, --version
-
Display version information.
SEE ALSO
iconv(1),
man(1),
manconv(1)
BUGS
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db
AUTHOR
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).