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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:37:10 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:37:10 +0000 |
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diff --git a/man/man1/man-recode.man1 b/man/man1/man-recode.man1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c08517a --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/man-recode.man1 @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +.\" Man page for man-recode +.\" +.\" Copyright (C) 2019 Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> +.\" +.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public +.\" License as specified in the file docs/COPYING.GPLv2 that comes with the +.\" man-db distribution. +.pc +.TH %thman_recode% 1 "%date%" "%version%" "Manual pager utils" +.SH NAME +%man_recode% \- convert manual pages to another encoding +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B %man_recode% +.B \-t +.I to-code +{\|\fB\-\-suffix=\fIsuffix\/\fR\||\|\c +.BR \-\-in\-place \|} +.RB [\| \-dqhV \|] +.RI [\| filename \|] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B %man_recode% +converts multiple manual pages from one encoding to another, guessing the +appropriate input encoding for each one. +It is useful when permanently recoding pages written in legacy character +sets, or in build systems that need to recode a set of pages to a single +common encoding (usually UTF\-8) for installation. +When converting many manual pages, this program is much faster than running +.B %man% \-\-recode +or +.B %manconv% +on each page. +.PP +If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of a manual page, then +that declaration is used as the input encoding for that page. +Failing that, the input encoding is guessed based on the file name. +.PP +Encoding declarations have the following form: +.PP +.RS +.nf +.if !'po4a'hide' \&\(aq\e" \-*\- coding: UTF\-8 \-*\- +.fi +.RE +.PP +or (if manual page preprocessors are also to be declared): +.PP +.RS +.nf +.if !'po4a'hide' \&\(aq\e" t \-*\- coding: ISO\-8859\-1 \-*\- +.fi +.RE +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\fB\-t\fR \fIencoding\/\fR, \fB\-\-to\-code=\fIencoding\fR +Convert manual pages to +.IR encoding . +.TP +\fB\-\-suffix=\fIsuffix\fR +Form each output file name by appending +.I suffix +to the input file name, after removing any compression extension. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .B \-\-in\-place +Overwrite each input file with the output, after removing any compression +extension. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-q ", " \-\-quiet +Do not issue error messages when the page cannot be converted. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-d ", " \-\-debug +Print debugging information. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-h ", " \-\-help +Print a help message and exit. +.TP +.if !'po4a'hide' .BR \-V ", " \-\-version +Display version information. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.if !'po4a'hide' .IR iconv (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .IR %man% (1), +.if !'po4a'hide' .IR %manconv% (1) +.SH BUGS +.if !'po4a'hide' https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues +.br +.if !'po4a'hide' https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db +.SH AUTHOR +.nf +.if !'po4a'hide' Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). +.fi |