NAME

       dictl  -  wrapper script for dict that permits using utf-8 encoded dictionaries on a terminal that is not
       utf-8 aware.

SYNOPSIS

       dictl [OPTIONS] [word]

Description

       dictl calls dict with the arguments given on the command line.  dictl takes the value of the  environment
       variable  DICTL_CHARSET as the user's preferred character set.  If this variable is empty, dictl attempts
       to determine the character set to be used from the output of the locale command.

       Arguments passed to dictl including word are  converted  from  the  user's  preferred  character  set  to
       server's  character  set specified by DICTL_SERVER_CHARSET variable (utf-8 if it is unset), and passed to
       dict.  The server's output from dict is converted to the user's preferred character set.

       NOTE: Because iconv omits characters from output that are invalid,
       recode -f is used for character set conversions by default.  If you  prefer  iconv,  set  DICTL_USE_ICONV
       variable to non-empty string.  If you want to use konwert, set DICTL_USE_KONWERT to non-empty string.

       Because  recode, iconv and konwert do not support conversion to or from the "C" or "POSIX" locales, it is
       recommended that all users whose locale is "C" or "POSIX", set DICTL_CHARSET to "latin1" (ISO_8859-1).

OPTIONS

       dictl accepts all dict options as described in dict(1).

AUTHOR

       dictl was written by Aleksey Cheusov <vle@gmx.net>
       This  manual  page  was  written  by  Robert  D.  Hilliard  <hilliard@debian.org>  and  Aleksey   Cheusov
       <vle@gmx.net>

SEE ALSO

       dict(1), recode(1), iconv(1), konwert(1)

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