MIXCONV(1)

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💖 MIXCONV(1) — bestie edition 💖

okay so you know how a file can be chaotic? like, part UTF-8, part ancient 8-bit encoding, just vibing in the same text file like it's nothing? yeah. mixconv is the girl who fixes that. she transcode mixed-encoding files, no cap. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mixconv [-dv] [-f charset] [-o outfile] [file ...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea, bestie 🍓: the mixconv utility reads text that's encoded in a mixture of UTF-8 and a non-UTF 8-bit encoding, and converts it all to UTF-8. Glow-up complete. ✨

And which non-UTF 8-bit encoding does she assume? Latin-1, periodt. Unless you tell her otherwise with the -f option, obviously. She's flexible like that. 💅

The following options are available:

  • -d — show debugging information. and like, you can specify this one multiple times to crank the level of detail up higher and higher. more -d, more lore. 🔍
  • -f charset — specify the assumed character set for non-ASCII, non-UTF-8 text. the default is "iso8859-1". 🎀
  • -h — print a usage message and exit. the classic "hey bestie, here's how you use me" move. 🫶
  • -v — print the source reversion number and exit. she's showing you her version, icon behaviour. ⭐

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

dirconf(1), iconv(1), regex(3) — the rest of the friend group, go say hi. 💜

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The mixconv utility and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> for the University of Oslo. academic queen behaviour fr fr 🎓💖

and that's the whole page, babe — this one's dated November 18, 2014 and it lives in section MIXCONV(1). mwah, go convert something 💋✨

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