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MANCONV(1)                               Manual pager utils                               MANCONV(1)

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  in‐
       stalled  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 AT debian.org).

BUGS
       https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

2.12.0                                       2023-09-23                                   MANCONV(1)