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 encodings 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
-fencodings, --from-codeencodings
Try each of
encodings
(a colon-separated list) in sequence as the input encoding.
-tencoding, --to-codeencoding
Convert the manual page to
encoding.
-q, --quiet
Do not issue error messages when the page cannot be converted.