Manual: manconv

MANCONV(1)					     Manual pager utils						  MANCONV(1)

NAME
       manconv - convert manual page from one encoding to another

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

DESCRIPTION
       manconv	converts a manual page from one encoding to another, like iconv.  Unlike 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.

       If an encoding declaration is found on the first line of the manual page, that declaration overrides any input encod‐
       ings specified on manconv's command line.  Encoding declarations have the following form:

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

       or (if manual page preprocessors are also to be declared):

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

OPTIONS
       -f encodings, --from-code encodings
	      Try  each	 of  encodings	(a colon-separated list) in sequence as the input encoding.  The default is to guess
	      likely input encodings based on the file name.

       -t encoding, --to-code encoding
	      Convert the manual page to encoding.

       -q, --quiet
	      Do not issue error messages when the page cannot be converted.

       -d, --debug
	      Print debugging information.

       -h, --help
	      Print a help message and exit.

       -V, --version
	      Display version information.

SEE ALSO
       iconv(1), man(1), man-recode(1)

AUTHOR
       Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org).

BUGS
       https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/issues
       https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=man-db

2.13.1							 2025-05-02						  MANCONV(1)