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diff --git a/man/man1/manconv.man1 b/man/man1/manconv.man1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cfe36ad --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man1/manconv.man1 @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +.\" Man page for manconv +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 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 %thmanconv% 1 "%date%" "%version%" "Manual pager utils" +.SH NAME +%manconv% \- convert manual page from one encoding to another +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B %manconv% +.B \-f +.RI [\| from-code \|[: from-code \|.\|.\|.]\|] +.B \-t +.I to-code +.RB [\| \-dqhV \|] +.RI [\| filename \|] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B %manconv% +converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like +.BR iconv . +Unlike +.BR iconv , +it can try multiple possible input encodings in sequence. +This is useful for manual pages installed in directories without an explicit +encoding declaration, since they may be in UTF\-8 or in a legacy character +set. +.PP +If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of the manual page, +that declaration overrides any input encodings specified on +.BR %manconv% 's +command line. +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\-f\fP \fIencodings\fP, \fB\-\-from\-code\fP \fIencodings\fP +Try each of +.I encodings +(a colon-separated list) in sequence as the input encoding. +The default is to guess likely input encodings based on the file name. +.TP +\fB\-t\fP \fIencoding\fP, \fB\-\-to\-code\fP \fIencoding\fP +Convert the manual page to +.IR encoding . +.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 %man_recode% (1) +.SH AUTHOR +.nf +.if !'po4a'hide' Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). +.fi +.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 |