MANCONV(1)

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version 2.13.1 · 6 versions
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🎀 MANCONV(1) 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to the Manual pager utils section of the manual, where we're looking at manconv 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

manconv - convert manual page from one encoding to another 🦋

📜 SYNOPSIS 📜

manconv -f [from-code[:from-code...]] -t to-code [-dqhV] [filename]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so manconv takes a manual page and converts it from one encoding to another, kind of like iconv does 🫶 The difference is that iconv only tries one input encoding, but manconv can try a whole list of them, one after another. This is literally so useful for manual pages sitting in directories with no encoding declaration, because they could be UTF-8 or some old legacy character set and nobody told us which 😭

If the first line of the manual page has an encoding declaration, that declaration wins over whatever input encodings you passed on the command line. Declarations look like this:

'\" -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

or, if manual page preprocessors are also being declared, like this:

'\" t -*- coding: ISO-8859-1 -*-

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -f encodings, --from-code encodings — Give it a colon-separated list of encodings and it'll try each one in order as the input encoding 🔥 If you don't say anything, it'll guess the likely input encodings from the file name instead.
  • -t encoding, --to-code encoding — This is the encoding you want the manual page converted to 🍓
  • -q, --quiet — Shh, no error messages if the page can't be converted 🙈
  • -d, --debug — Shows debugging information, for when you need to see what's going on under the hood 🧚
  • -h, --help — Prints a help message and exits 🌈
  • -V, --version — Shows the version information 💜

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

iconv(1), man(1), man-recode(1) 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org). Literal queen behavior 👑

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Bugs are where the drama lives, so report them here, bestie 💀

Report them at https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues or at https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db ✨

That's the whole tea on MANCONV(1) 🌈 Version 2.13.1, dated 2025-05-02, and you're officially encoding-literate now 💅🎀 Love you, mean it 🫶💖

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