HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

iconv(1) iconv(1)

LC_MESSAGES determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic

messages written to standard error and informative messages written to standard output.

NLSPATH determines the location of message catalogs for the processing of

LC_MESSAGES .

International Code Set Support

Single and multi-byte character codesets are supported.

RETURN VALUE

iconv returns the following values:

0 Successful completion.

>0 An error occurred.

EXAMPLES

Convert the contents of ﬁle foo from codeset Roman8 to ISO 8859/1 and store the results in ﬁle

bar.

iconv -f roman8 -t iso8859_1 foo > bar

WARNINGS

If an input character does not have a valid equivalent in the codeset selected by the -t

option (the "to"

codeset), it is mapped to the "galley character", if it has been deﬁned for that conversion (see genxlt(1) and

iconv(3C)).

If an input character does not belong to the codeset selected by the

-f option (the "from" codeset), the com-

mand terminates.

FILES

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/config.iconv

User customizable iconv conﬁguration ﬁle.

/usr/lib/nls/iconv/system.config.iconv

System iconv conﬁguration ﬁle, containing code names supported by the operating

system

AUTHOR

iconv was developed by HP.