manconv(1) — Linux manual page

MANCONV(1)                 Manual pager utils                 MANCONV(1)

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://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

COLOPHON

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       ⟨http://www.nongnu.org/man-db/⟩.  If you have a bug report for
       this manual page, send it to man-db-devel@nongnu.org.  This page
       was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://gitlab.com/cjwatson/man-db⟩ on 2024-06-14.  (At that
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2.12.1                         2024-04-05                     MANCONV(1)

Pages that refer to this page: dh_installman(1), man(1), man-recode(1)

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