iconv - codeset conversion

iconv converts the encoding of characters in the file operands from one codeset to another and writes the results to the standard output. If file is - or omitted then the standard input is read.

Character encodings in either codeset may include single-byte values (for example, for the ISO 8859-1:1987 standard characters) or multi-byte values (for example, for certain characters in the ISO 6937:1983 standard). Invalid characters in the input stream (either those that are not valid members of the input codeset or those that have no corresponding value in the output codeset) are output as the underscore character (_) in the output codeset.

The native codeset is determined by the LANG, LC_ALL and LC_CTYPE environment variables. The supported codesets are matched by these left-anchored case-insensitive ksh(1) patterns:

a|ascii|?(iso)?(-)646|?(iso)?(-)8859|latin

8 bit ascii

e|ebcdic?(-)?([1e]

X/Open ebcdic

o|ebcdic?(-)[3o]|?(cp|ibm)1047|open?(-)edition

mvs OpenEdition ebcdic

h|ebcdic?(-)h|?(cp|ibm)?(00)37|[oa]s?(/-)400

ibm OS/400 AS/400 ebcdic

s|ebcdic?(-)s|siemens|posix-bc

siemens posix-bc ebcdic

i|ebcdic?(-)[2i]|ibm

X/Open ibm ebcdic (not idempotent)

m|ebcdic?(-)m|mvs

mvs ebcdic

u|ebcdic?(-)(u|mf)|microfocus

microfocus cobol ebcdic

n|native|local

native code set

un|unicode|utf

multibyte 8-bit unicode

um|ume|utf?(-)7

multibyte 7-bit unicode

big|euc)*

euc family

dos?(-)?(855

dos code page

ucs?(-)?(2)?(be)|utf-16?(be

unicode runes

ucs?(-)?(2)le|utf-16le

little endian unicode runes

Conversion between certain codesets may not be supported. Also, since the standard(s) provide no support for listing the known codesets, the above list may be incomplete.

-a, --all

List all conversion errors. By default (and --omit is not specified) iconv stops after the first error.

-c, --omit

Omit invalid input characters from the output. Invalid input characters still affect the exit status.

-e, --errors

Do not ignore conversion errors.

-f, --from=codeset

The input codeset is set to codeset. The default value is native.

-i, --ignore

Ignore conversion errors.

-l, --list

List all known codesets on the standard output.

-s, --silent

Suppress invalid character diagnostics. Invalid input characters still affect the exit status. If --all is also specified then non-zero invalid character counts are listed.

-t, --to=codeset

The output codeset is set to codeset. The default value is native.

dd(1), iconv(3), setlocale(3)

version

iconv (AT&T Research) 2011-01-11

author

Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com>

copyright

Copyright © 1989-2012 AT&T Intellectual Property

license

http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/epl-v10.html