MANCONV
Section: Manual pager utils (1)
Updated: 2020-06-22
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NAME
manconv - convert manual page from one encoding to another
SYNOPSIS
manconv
-f
[
from-code[:
from-code...]]
-t
to-code
[
-dqhV]
[
filename]
DESCRIPTION
manconv
converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like
iconv.
Unlike
iconv,
it can try multiple possible input encodings in sequence.
This is useful for manual pages installed in directories without an explicit
encoding declaration, since they may be in UTF-8 or in a legacy character
set.
If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of the manual page,
that declaration overrides any input encodings specified on
manconv's
command line.
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
- -f encodings, --from-code encodings
-
Try each of
encodings
(a colon-separated list) in sequence as the input encoding.
The default is to guess likely input encodings based on the file name.
- -t encoding, --to-code encoding
-
Convert the manual page to
encoding.
- -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),
man-recode(1)
AUTHOR
Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).
BUGS
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db