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| 15 | <title>ICONV</title> | 
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| 19 |  | 
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| 20 | <h1 align="center">ICONV</h1> | 
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| 21 |  | 
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| 22 | <a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br> | 
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| 23 | <a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br> | 
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| 24 | <a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br> | 
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| 25 | <a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br> | 
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| 26 | <a href="#CONFORMING TO">CONFORMING TO</a><br> | 
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| 27 | <a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br> | 
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| 28 |  | 
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| 29 | <hr> | 
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| 30 |  | 
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| 31 |  | 
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| 32 | <h2>NAME | 
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| 33 | <a name="NAME"></a> | 
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| 34 | </h2> | 
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| 35 |  | 
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| 36 |  | 
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| 37 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">iconv − | 
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| 38 | character set conversion</p> | 
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| 39 |  | 
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| 40 | <h2>SYNOPSIS | 
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| 41 | <a name="SYNOPSIS"></a> | 
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| 42 | </h2> | 
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| 43 |  | 
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| 44 |  | 
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| 45 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">iconv | 
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| 46 | [<i>OPTION</i>...] [<b>−f</b> <i>encoding</i>] | 
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| 47 | [<b>−t</b> <i>encoding</i>] [<i>inputfile</i> ...] | 
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| 48 | <br> | 
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| 49 | iconv <b>−l</b></p> | 
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| 50 |  | 
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| 51 | <h2>DESCRIPTION | 
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| 52 | <a name="DESCRIPTION"></a> | 
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| 53 | </h2> | 
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| 54 |  | 
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| 55 |  | 
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| 56 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The | 
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| 57 | <b>iconv</b> program converts text from one encoding to | 
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| 58 | another encoding. More precisely, it converts <b>from</b> | 
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| 59 | the encoding given for the <b>−f</b> option <b>to</b> | 
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| 60 | the encoding given for the <b>−t</b> option. Either of | 
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| 61 | these encodings defaults to the encoding of the current | 
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| 62 | locale. All the <i>inputfile</i>s are read and converted in | 
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| 63 | turn; if no <i>inputfile</i> is given, the standard input is | 
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| 64 | used. The converted text is printed to standard output.</p> | 
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| 65 |  | 
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| 66 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The encodings | 
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| 67 | permitted are system dependent. For the libiconv | 
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| 68 | implementation, they are listed in the iconv_open(3) manual | 
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| 69 | page.</p> | 
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| 70 |  | 
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| 71 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Options | 
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| 72 | controlling the input and output format: <b><br> | 
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| 73 | −f</b> <i>encoding</i>, | 
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| 74 | <b>−−from−code=</b><i>encoding</i></p> | 
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| 75 |  | 
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| 76 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">Specifies the encoding of the | 
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| 77 | input.</p> | 
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| 78 |  | 
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| 79 | <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−t</b> | 
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| 80 | <i>encoding</i>, | 
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| 81 | <b>−−to−code=</b><i>encoding</i></p> | 
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| 82 |  | 
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| 83 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">Specifies the encoding of the | 
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| 84 | output.</p> | 
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| 85 |  | 
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| 86 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Options | 
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| 87 | controlling conversion problems:</p> | 
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| 88 |  | 
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| 89 | <table width="100%" border="0" rules="none" frame="void" | 
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| 93 | <td width="3%"> | 
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| 94 |  | 
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| 95 |  | 
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| 96 | <p><b>−c</b></p></td> | 
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| 98 | <td width="78%"> | 
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| 99 |  | 
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| 100 |  | 
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| 101 | <p>When this option is given, characters that cannot be | 
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| 102 | converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to a | 
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| 103 | conversion error.</p></td></tr> | 
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| 104 | </table> | 
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| 105 |  | 
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| 106 |  | 
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| 107 | <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−−unicode−subst=</b><i>formatstring</i></p> | 
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| 108 |  | 
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| 109 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">When this option is given, | 
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| 110 | Unicode characters that cannot be represented in the target | 
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| 111 | encoding are replaced with a placeholder string that is | 
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| 112 | constructed from the given <i>formatstring</i>, applied to | 
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| 113 | the Unicode code point. The <i>formatstring</i> must be a | 
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| 114 | format string in the same format as for the <i>printf</i> | 
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| 115 | command or the <i>printf()</i> function, taking either no | 
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| 116 | argument or exactly one unsigned integer argument.</p> | 
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| 117 |  | 
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| 118 |  | 
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| 119 | <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−−byte−subst=</b><i>formatstring</i></p> | 
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| 120 |  | 
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| 121 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">When this option is given, | 
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| 122 | bytes in the input that are not valid in the source encoding | 
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| 123 | are replaced with a placeholder string that is constructed | 
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| 124 | from the given <i>formatstring</i>, applied to the | 
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| 125 | byte’s value. The <i>formatstring</i> must be a format | 
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| 126 | string in the same format as for the <i>printf</i> command | 
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| 127 | or the <i>printf()</i> function, taking either no argument | 
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| 128 | or exactly one unsigned integer argument.</p> | 
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| 129 |  | 
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| 130 |  | 
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| 131 | <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−−widechar−subst=</b><i>formatstring</i></p> | 
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| 132 |  | 
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| 133 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">When this option is given, wide | 
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| 134 | characters in the input that are not valid in the source | 
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| 135 | encoding are replaced with a placeholder string that is | 
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| 136 | constructed from the given <i>formatstring</i>, applied to | 
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| 137 | the byte’s value. The <i>formatstring</i> must be a | 
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| 138 | format string in the same format as for the <i>printf</i> | 
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| 139 | command or the <i>printf()</i> function, taking either no | 
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| 140 | argument or exactly one unsigned integer argument.</p> | 
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| 141 |  | 
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| 142 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Options | 
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| 143 | controlling error output: <b><br> | 
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| 144 | −s</b>, <b>−−silent</b></p> | 
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| 145 |  | 
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| 146 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">When this option is given, | 
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| 147 | error messages about invalid or unconvertible characters are | 
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| 148 | omitted, but the actual converted text is unaffected.</p> | 
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| 149 |  | 
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| 150 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">The <b>iconv | 
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| 151 | −l</b> or <b>iconv −−list</b> command | 
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| 152 | lists the names of the supported encodings, in a system | 
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| 153 | dependent format. For the libiconv implementation, the names | 
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| 154 | are printed in upper case, separated by whitespace, and | 
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| 155 | alias names of an encoding are listed on the same line as | 
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| 156 | the encoding itself.</p> | 
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| 157 |  | 
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| 158 | <h2>EXAMPLES | 
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| 159 | <a name="EXAMPLES"></a> | 
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| 160 | </h2> | 
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| 161 |  | 
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| 162 |  | 
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| 163 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>iconv | 
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| 164 | −f ISO−8859−1 −t UTF−8</b></p> | 
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| 165 |  | 
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| 166 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">converts input from the old | 
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| 167 | West-European encoding ISO−8859−1 to | 
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| 168 | Unicode.</p> | 
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| 169 |  | 
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| 170 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>iconv | 
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| 171 | −f KOI8−R | 
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| 172 | −−byte−subst="<0x%x>" <br> | 
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| 173 |  | 
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| 174 | −−unicode−subst="<U+%04X>"</b></p> | 
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| 175 |  | 
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| 176 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">converts input from the old | 
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| 177 | Russian encoding KOI8−R to the locale encoding, | 
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| 178 | substituting an angle bracket notation with hexadecimal | 
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| 179 | numbers for invalid bytes and for valid but unconvertible | 
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| 180 | characters.</p> | 
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| 181 |  | 
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| 182 | <p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>iconv | 
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| 183 | −−list</b></p> | 
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| 184 |  | 
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| 185 | <p style="margin-left:22%;">lists the supported | 
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| 186 | encodings.</p> | 
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| 187 |  | 
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| 188 | <h2>CONFORMING TO | 
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| 189 | <a name="CONFORMING TO"></a> | 
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| 190 | </h2> | 
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| 191 |  | 
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| 192 |  | 
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| 193 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">POSIX:2001</p> | 
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| 194 |  | 
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| 195 | <h2>SEE ALSO | 
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| 196 | <a name="SEE ALSO"></a> | 
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| 197 | </h2> | 
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| 201 | <p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>iconv_open</b>(3), | 
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| 202 | <b>locale</b>(7)</p> | 
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