iconv.1 (2010 09)

iconv(1) iconv(1)

NLSPATH determines the location of message catalogs for the processing of

LC_MESSAGES.

International Code Set Support

Single and multi-byte character codesets are supported.

RETURN VALUE

iconv returns the following values:

0 Successful completion.

>0 An error occurred.

EXAMPLES

Convert the contents of ﬁle

foo from codeset Roman8 to ISO 8859/1 and store the results in ﬁle

bar.

iconv -f roman8 -t iso8859_1 foo > bar

WARNINGS

If an input character does not have a valid equivalent in the codeset selected by the

-t option (the "to"

codeset), it is mapped to the "galley character", if it has been deﬁned for that conversion (see genxlt (1) and

iconv (3C)).

If an input character does not belong to the codeset selected by the

-f option (the "from" codeset), the

command terminates.

FILES

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv

User customizable iconv conﬁguration ﬁle

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/system.config.iconv

System iconv conﬁguration ﬁle, containing

codenames supported by the operating system

AUTHOR

The

iconv command was developed by HP.