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452 lines
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.\" Hey, Emacs! This is -*-nroff-*- you know...
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.\"
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.\" uconv.1: manual page for the uconv utility.
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (C) 2000-2003 IBM, Inc. and others.
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.\"
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.\" Manual page by Yves Arrouye <yves@realnames.com>.
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.\"
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.TH UCONV 1 "2003-dec-22" "ICU MANPAGE" "ICU @VERSION@ Manual"
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.SH NAME
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.B uconv
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\- convert data from one encoding to another
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B uconv
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[
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.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-s\fP, \fB\-\-silent"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-l\fP, \fB\-\-list"
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.BI "\-l\fP, \fB\-\-list\-code" " code"
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.BI "\-\-default-code"
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.BI "\-L\fP, \fB\-\-list\-transliterators"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-canon"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-x" " transliteration
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-to\-callback" " callback"
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.B "\-c"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-from\-callback" " callback"
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.B "\-i"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-callback" " callback"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-fallback"
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.BI "\-\-no\-fallback"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-b\fP, \fB\-\-block\-size" " size"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-f\fP, \fB\-\-from\-code" " encoding"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-t\fP, \fB\-\-to\-code" " encoding"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-add\-signature"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-\-remove\-signature"
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]
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[
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.BI "\-o\fP, \fB\-\-output" " file"
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]
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[
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.IR file .\|.\|.
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]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B uconv
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converts, or transcodes, each given
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.I file
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(or its standard input if no
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.I file
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is specified) from one
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.I encoding
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to another.
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The transcoding is done using Unicode as a pivot encoding
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(i.e. the data are first transcoded from their original encoding to
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Unicode, and then from Unicode to the destination encoding).
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.PP
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If an
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.I encoding
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is not specified or is
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.BR - ,
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the default encoding is used. Thus, calling
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.B uconv
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with no
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.I encoding
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provides an easy way to validate and sanitize data files for
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further consumption by tools requiring data in the default encoding.
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.PP
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When calling
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.BR uconv ,
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it is possible to specify callbacks that are used to handle invalid
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characters in the input, or characters that cannot be transcoded to
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the destination encoding. Some encodings, for example, offer a default
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substitution character that can be used to represent the occurence of
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such characters in the input. Other callbacks offer a useful visual
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representation of the invalid data.
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.PP
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.B uconv
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can also run the specified
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.IR transliteration
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on the transcoded data,
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in which case transliteration will happen as an intermediate step,
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after the data have been transcoded to Unicode.
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The
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.I transliteration
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can be either a list of semicolon-separated transliterator names,
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or an arbitrarily complex set of rules in the ICU transliteration
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rules format.
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.PP
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For transcoding purposes,
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.B uconv
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options are compatible with those of
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.BR iconv (1),
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making it easy to replace it in scripts. It is not necessarily the case,
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however, that the encoding names used by
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.B uconv
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and ICU are the same as the ones used by
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.BR iconv (1).
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Also, options that provide informational data, such as the
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.B \-l\fP, \fB\-\-list
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one offered by some
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.BR iconv (1)
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variants such as GNU's, produce data in a slightly different and
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easier to parse format.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help"
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Print help about usage and exit.
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.TP
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.BR "\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version"
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Print the version of
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.B uconv
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and exit.
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.TP
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.BI "\-s\fP, \fB\-\-silent"
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Suppress messages during execution.
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.TP
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.BI "\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose"
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Display extra informative messages during execution.
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.TP
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.BI "\-l\fP, \fB\-\-list"
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List all the available encodings and exit.
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.TP
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.BI "\-l\fP, \fB\-\-list\-code" " code"
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List only the
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.I code
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encoding and exit. If
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.I code
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is not a proper encoding, exit with an error.
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-default-code"
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List only the name of the default encoding and exit.
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.TP
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.BI "\-L\fP, \fB\-\-list\-transliterators"
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List all the available transliterators and exit.
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.TP
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.BI "\--canon"
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If used with
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.BI "\-l\fP, \fB\-\-list"
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or
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.BR "\-\-default-code" ,
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the list of encodings is produced in a format compatible with
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.BR convrtrs.txt (5).
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If used with
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.BR "\-L\fP, \fB\-\-list\-transliterators" ,
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print only one transliterator name per line.
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.TP
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.BI "\-x" " transliteration"
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Run the given
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.IR transliteration
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on the transcoded Unicode data,
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and use the transliterated data as input for the transcoding to
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the the destination encoding.
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-to\-callback" " callback"
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Use
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.I callback
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to handle characters that cannot be transcoded to the destination
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encoding. See section
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.B CALLBACKS
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for details on valid callbacks.
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.TP
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.B "\-c"
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Omit invalid characters from the output.
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Same as
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.BR "\-\-to\-callback skip" .
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-from\-callback" " callback"
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Use
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.I callback
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to handle characters that cannot be transcoded from the original
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encoding. See section
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.B CALLBACKS
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for details on valid callbacks.
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.TP
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.B "\-i"
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Ignore invalid sequences in the input.
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Same as
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.BR "\-\-from\-callback skip" .
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-callback" " callback"
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Use
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.I callback
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to handle both characters that cannot be transcoded from the original
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encoding and characters that cannot be transcoded to the destination
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encoding. See section
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.B CALLBACKS
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for details on valid callbacks.
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-fallback"
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Use the fallback mapping when transcoding from
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Unicode to the destination encoding.
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-no\-fallback"
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Do not use the fallback mapping when transcoding from Unicode to the
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destination encoding.
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This is the default.
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.TP
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.BI "\-b\fP, \fB\-\-block\-size" " size"
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Read input in blocks of
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.I size
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bytes at a time. The default block size is
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4096.
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.TP
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.BI "\-f\fP, \fB\-\-from\-code" " encoding"
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Set the original encoding of the data to
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.IR encoding .
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.TP
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.BI "\-t\fP, \fB\-\-to\-code" " encoding"
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Transcode the data to
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.IR encoding .
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-add\-signature"
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Add a U+FEFF Unicode signature character (BOM) if the output charset
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supports it and does not add one anyway.
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.TP
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.BI "\-\-remove\-signature"
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Remove a U+FEFF Unicode signature character (BOM).
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.TP
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.BI "\-o\fP, \fB\-\-output" " file"
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Write the transcoded data to
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.IR file .
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.SH CALLBACKS
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.B uconv
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supports specifying callbacks to handle invalid data. Callbacks can be
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set for both directions of transcoding: from the original encoding to
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Unicode, with the
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.BR "\-\-from\-callback"
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option, and from Unicode to the destination encoding, with the
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.BR "\-\-to\-callback"
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option.
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.PP
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The following is a list of valid
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.I callback
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names, alonmg with a description of their behavior. The list of
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callbacks actually supported by
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.B uconv
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is displayed when it is called with
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.BR "\-h\fP, \fB\-\-help" .
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.PP
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.TP \w'\fBescape-unicode'u+3n
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.B substitute
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Write the the encoding's substitute sequence, or the Unicode
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replacement character
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.B U+FFFD
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when transcoding to Unicode.
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.TP
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.B skip
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Ignore the invalid data.
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.TP
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.B stop
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Stop with an error when encountering invalid data.
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This is the default callback.
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.TP
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.B escape
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Same as
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.BR escape-icu .
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.TP
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.B escape-icu
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Replace the missing characters with a string of the format
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.BR %U\fIhhhh\fP
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for plane 0 characters, and
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.BR %U\fIhhhh\fP%U\fIhhhh\fP
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for planes 1 and above characters,
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where
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.I hhhh
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is the hexadecimal value of one of the UTF-16 code units representing the
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character. Characters from planes 1 and above are written as a pair of
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UTF-16 surrogate code units.
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.TP
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.B escape-java
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Replace the missing characters with a string of the format
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.BR \eu\fIhhhh\fP
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for plane 0 characters, and
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.BR \eu\fIhhhh\fP\eu\fIhhhh\fP
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for planes 1 and above characters,
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where
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.I hhhh
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is the hexadecimal value of one of the UTF-16 code units representing the
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character. Characters from planes 1 and above are written as a pair of
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UTF-16 surrogate code units.
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.TP
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.B escape-c
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Replace the missing characters with a string of the format
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.BR \eu\fIhhhh\fP
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for plane 0 characters, and
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.BR \eU\fIhhhhhhhh\fP
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for planes 1 and above characters,
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where
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.I hhhh
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and
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.I hhhhhhhh
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are the hexadecimal values of the Unicode codepoint.
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.TP
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.B escape-xml
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Same as
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.BR escape-xml-hex .
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.TP
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.B escape-xml-hex
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Replace the missing characters with a string of the format
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.BR &#x\fIhhhh\fP; ,
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where
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.I hhhh
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is the hexadecimal value of the Unicode codepoint.
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.TP
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.B escape-xml-dec
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Replace the missing characters with a string of the format
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.BR &#x\fInnnn\fP; ,
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where
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.I nnnn
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is the decimal value of the Unicode codepoint.
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.TP
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.B escape-unicode
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Replace the missing characters with a string of the format
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.BR {U+\fIhhhh\fP} ,
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where
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.I hhhh
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is the hexadecimal value of the Unicode codepoint.
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That hexadecimal string is of variable length and can use from 4 to
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6 digits.
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This is the format universally used to denote a Unicode codepoint in
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the litterature, delimited by curly braces for easy recognition of those
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substitutions in the output.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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Convert data from a given
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.I encoding
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to the platform encoding:
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.RS 4
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.B \fR$ \fPuconv \-f \fIencoding\fP
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.RE
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.PP
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Check if a
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.I file
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contains valid data for a given
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.IR encoding :
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.RS 4
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.B \fR$ \fPuconv \-f \fIencoding\fP \-c \fIfile\fP >/dev/null
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.RE
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.PP
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Convert a UTF-8
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.I file
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to a given
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.I encoding
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and ensure that the resulting text is good for any version of HTML:
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.RS 4
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.B \fR$ \fPuconv \-f utf-8 \-t \fIencoding\fP \e
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.br
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.B " \-\-callback escape-xml-dec \fIfile\fP"
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.RE
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.PP
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Display the names of the Unicode code points in a UTF-file:
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.RS 4
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.B \fR$ \fPuconv \-f utf-8 \-x any-name \fIfile\fP
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.RE
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.PP
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Print the name of a Unicode code point whose value is known (\fBU+30AB\fP
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in this example):
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.RS 4
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.B \fR$ \fPecho '\eu30ab' | uconv \-x 'hex-any; any-name'; echo
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.br
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{KATAKANA LETTER KA}{LINE FEED}
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.br
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$
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.RE
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(The names are delimited by curly braces.
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Also, the name of the line terminator is also displayed.)
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.PP
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Normalize UTF-8 data using Unicode NFKC, remove all control characters,
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and map Katakana to Hiragana:
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.RS 4
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.B \fR$ \fPuconv \-f utf-8 \-t utf-8 \e
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.br
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.B " \-x '::nfkc; [:Cc:] >; ::katakana-hiragana;'"
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.SH CAVEATS AND BUGS
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.B uconv
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does report errors as occuring at the first invalid byte
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encountered. This may be confusing to users of GNU
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.BR iconv (1),
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which reports errors as occuring at the first byte of an invalid
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sequence. For multi-byte character sets or encodings, this means that
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.BR uconv
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error positions may be at a later offset in the input stream than
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would be the case with GNU
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.BR iconv (1).
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.PP
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The reporting of error positions when a transliterator is used may be
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inaccurate or unavailable, in which case
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.BR uconv
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will report the offset in the output stream at which the error
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occured.
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.SH FILES
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.TP 15
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.B @thepkgicudatadir@/@PACKAGE@/@VERSION@/uconvmsg.dat
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Compiled resource bundle containing localized messages printed
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by
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.BR uconv .
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.SH AUTHORS
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Jonas Utterstroem
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.br
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Yves Arrouye
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.SH VERSION
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@VERSION@
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.SH COPYRIGHT
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Copyright (C) 2000-2003 IBM, Inc. and others.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR convrtrs.txt (5)
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.br
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.BR iconv (1)
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