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<h1 align=center>ICONV</h1>
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<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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iconv - character set conversion</td></table>
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<pre>iconv [<i>OPTION</i>...] [<b>-f</b> <i>encoding</i>] [<b>-t</b> <i>encoding</i>] [<i>inputfile</i> ...]
iconv <b>-l
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The <b>iconv</b> program converts text from one encoding to
another encoding. More precisely, it converts <b>from</b>
the encoding given for the <b>-f</b> option <b>to</b> the
encoding given for the <b>-t</b> option. Either of these
encodings defaults to the encoding of the current locale.
All the <i>inputfile</i>s are read and converted in turn; if
no <i>inputfile</i> is given, the standard input is used.
The converted text is printed to standard
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The encodings permitted are system dependent. For the
libiconv implementation, they are listed in the
iconv_open(3) manual page.</td></table>
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Options controlling the input and output
format:</td></table>
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<b>-f</b> <i>encoding</i>,
<b>--from-code=</b><i>encoding</i></td></table>
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Specifies the encoding of the input.</td></table>
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<b>-t</b> <i>encoding</i>,
<b>--to-code=</b><i>encoding</i></td></table>
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Specifies the encoding of the output.</td></table>
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Options controlling conversion problems:</td></table>
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<b>-c</b></td></table>
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When this option is given, characters that cannot be
converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a
conversion error.</td></table>
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<b>--unicode-subst=</b><i>formatstring</i></td></table>
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When this option is given, Unicode characters that cannot be
represented in the target encoding are replaced with a
placeholder string that is constructed from the given
<i>formatstring</i>, applied to the Unicode code point. The
<i>formatstring</i> must be a format string in the same
format as for the <i>printf</i> command or the
<i>printf()</i> function, taking either no argument or
exactly one unsigned integer argument.</td></table>
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<b>--byte-subst=</b><i>formatstring</i></td></table>
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When this option is given, bytes in the input that are not
valid in the source encoding are replaced with a placeholder
string that is constructed from the given
<i>formatstring</i>, applied to the byte's value. The
<i>formatstring</i> must be a format string in the same
format as for the <i>printf</i> command or the
<i>printf()</i> function, taking either no argument or
exactly one unsigned integer argument.</td></table>
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<b>--widechar-subst=</b><i>formatstring</i></td></table>
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When this option is given, wide characters in the input that
are not valid in the source encoding are replaced with a
placeholder string that is constructed from the given
<i>formatstring</i>, applied to the byte's value. The
<i>formatstring</i> must be a format string in the same
format as for the <i>printf</i> command or the
<i>printf()</i> function, taking either no argument or
exactly one unsigned integer argument.</td></table>
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Options controlling error output:</td></table>
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<b>-s</b>, <b>--silent</b></td></table>
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When this option is given, error messages about invalid or
unconvertible characters are omitted, but the actual
converted text is unaffected.</td></table>
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The <b>iconv -l</b> or <b>iconv --list</b> command lists the
names of the supported encodings, in a system dependent
format. For the libiconv implementation, the names are
printed in upper case, separated by whitespace, and alias
names of an encoding are listed on the same line as the
encoding itself.</td></table>
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<b>iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8</b></td></table>
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converts input from the old West-European encoding
ISO-8859-1 to Unicode.</td></table>
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<pre><b>iconv -f KOI8-R --byte-subst="<0x%x>"
--unicode-subst="<U+%04X>"
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converts input from the old Russian encoding KOI8-R to the
locale encoding, substituting an angle bracket notation with
hexadecimal numbers for invalid bytes and for valid but
unconvertible characters.</td></table>
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<b>iconv --list</b></td></table>
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lists the supported encodings.</td></table>
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<b>iconv_open</b>(3), <b>locale</b>(7)</td></table>
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