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