NAME

       iconv - Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

SYNOPSIS

       iconv -f encoding [-t encoding] [inputfile]...

DESCRIPTION

       The iconv program converts the encoding of characters in inputfile, or from the standard input if no
       filename is specified, from one coded character set to another. The result is written to standard output
       unless otherwise specified by the --output option.

       --from-code, -f encoding
              Convert characters from encoding.

       --to-code, -t encoding
              Convert  characters to encoding. If not specified the encoding corresponding to the current locale
              is used.

       --list, -l
              List known coded character sets.

       -c     Omit invalid characters from output.

       --output, -o file
              Specify output file (instead of stdout).

       --silent, -s
              Suppress warnings, but not errors.

       --verbose
              Print progress information.

       --help, -?
              Give help list.

       --usage
              Give a short usage message.

       --version, -V
              Print program version.

ENCODINGS

       The values permitted for --from-code and --to-code can be listed by the iconv  --list  command,  and  all
       combinations of the listed values are supported. Furthermore the following two suffixes are supported:

       //TRANSLIT
              When  the  string "//TRANSLIT" is appended to --to-code, transliteration is activated.  This means
              that when a character cannot be represented in the target character set, it  can  be  approximated
              through one or several similarly looking characters.

       //IGNORE
              When  the string "//IGNORE" is appended to --to-code, characters that cannot be represented in the
              target character set will be silently discarded.

AUTHOR

       iconv was written by Ulrich Drepper as part of the GNU C Library.

       This man page was written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

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