X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?p=yaz-moved-to-github.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fyaz-iconv-man.xml;h=a9201092e9240c57962b6319c37bd203a34b8b50;hp=5ed3766ee755eefb35f45b6c254cf3038561d211;hb=a6b61b9f8b6576e8159a4e7e6aee88bba7e5d07d;hpb=0e1c21de5892acadabc0e1b01606245091c4d275 diff --git a/doc/yaz-iconv-man.xml b/doc/yaz-iconv-man.xml index 5ed3766..a920109 100644 --- a/doc/yaz-iconv-man.xml +++ b/doc/yaz-iconv-man.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - %local; @@ -12,18 +12,20 @@ YAZ &version; + Index Data - + yaz-iconv 1 + Commands - + yaz-iconv - YAZ Charcter set conversion utility + YAZ Character set conversion utility - + yaz-iconv @@ -33,15 +35,15 @@ file - + DESCRIPTION - yaz-iconv converts data in file in character + yaz-iconv converts data in the character set specified by from to output in - character set as specified by to. + the character set as specified by to. - This yaz-iconv utility similar to the + This yaz-iconv utility is similar to the iconv found on many POSIX systems (Glibc, Solaris, etc). @@ -49,9 +51,9 @@ yaz-iconv reads from standard input. - + OPTIONS - + -ffrom] @@ -80,14 +82,18 @@ - + ENCODINGS The yaz-iconv command and the API as defined in yaz/yaz-iconv.h is a wrapper for the - library system call iconv. But YAZ' implementation also implements - conversions on its own. So regardless of iconv, the following - below are always supported by YAZ: + library system call iconv. But YAZ' iconv utility also implements + conversions on its own. The table below lists characters sets (or encodings) + that are supported by YAZ. Each character set is marked with either + encode or decode. If + an encoding is encode-enabled, YAZ may convert to + the designated encoding. If an encoding is decode-enabled, YAZ + may convert from the designated encoding. @@ -95,8 +101,7 @@ The MARC8 encoding as defined by - the Library of Congress. Most MARC21/USMARC records usees - this encoding. + the Library of Congress. Most MARC21/USMARC records use this encoding. @@ -104,7 +109,7 @@ marc8s (encode, decode) - Like MARC8 but with conversion prefers non-combined characters + Like MARC8 but conversion prefers non-combined characters in the Latin-1 plane over combined characters. @@ -145,7 +150,7 @@ iso5426 (decode) - ISO 5426. Some MARC records (UNIMARC) uses this encoding. + ISO 5426. Some MARC records (UNIMARC) use this encoding. @@ -161,7 +166,16 @@ advancegreek (encode, decode) - An encoding for Greek used by some vendors (Advance). + An encoding for Greek in use by some vendors (Advance). + + + + + danmarc (decode) + + + Danmarc (in danish) is + an encoding based on UNICODE which is used for DanMARC2 records. @@ -173,10 +187,10 @@ The following command converts from ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) to UTF-8. - yaz-iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -X <input.lst >output.lst + yaz-iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 <input.lst >output.lst - + FILES @@ -196,15 +210,7 @@