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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 lo‐
       cale 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 un‐
       set), 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_KON‐
       WERT to non-empty string.

       Because recode, iconv and konwert do not support conversion to or from the "C" or "POSIX" lo‐
       cales,  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 AT gmx.net>
       This manual page was written by Robert D. Hilliard <hilliard AT debian.org> and Aleksey  Cheusov
       <vle AT gmx.net>

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

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